Musings

The Magic of Nature by Numbers

The beauty and magic of this video has entranced me. It animates me. I dance ballet… Nature by Numbers etereaestudios.com

MindScraps: From Backpacking to Flashpacking

“Transition” has been the word on my lips for the past several months. “I’m ready for a transition,” I say. “I DO NOT want to stop traveling but I’m ready to graduate to the next level. I loved my five years of budget backpacking – the experiences I’ve had, the people I’ve encountered, the life [...]

Mind Scraps: Blogging Cures Blocked Bowels

Okay. This is getting absolutely ridiculous. But, it is proven through my own self-study: I don’t write/blog = my bowels get blocked. I do write/blog = my bowels function. Thus, I really need to find a way to get paid for my mental musings… MY HEALTH DEPENDS ON IT! Which, ultimately means, I need to [...]

Mind Scraps: Challenged to Become Divine Lovers?

A brief email from Caballo Blanco inspired me to respond with this: Challenges are the training ground for restoring us to become the divine, loving beings we are destined to be. Posting the quote as my status on Facebook (ironically enough if you see my prior post) instigated this: Me: I do believe I’m learning [...]

Mind Scraps: ‘The Social Network’ Suggests Facebook “Friends” are an Illusion

Facebook Feels Unfriendly Toward Film It Inspires Behind the scenes… [Mark] Zuckerberg and his colleagues have been locked in a tense standoff with the filmmakers [of The Social Network], who portray Facebook as founded on a series of betrayals, then fueled by the unappeasable craving of almost everyone for “friends” — the Facebook term for [...]

Mind Scraps: A Rare Soul Indeed

So why the goodbyes? Why the farewell to Playa? I met him, my king… ********** At First Sight When we arrived at the Blue Bay Riviera Maya resort we did what we did for each wedding we photographed. Cameras to face, my very talented Italian colleague and I descended upon the bride, her family and [...]

Friendship Poem

For my birthday, a dear friend I met through Couchsurfing in Cancun wrote me the following: Lamneto mucho no estar hoy contigo en este dia tan especial…. Tu cumpleaños! So much I lament not being abel to be with you on this special day… your birthday! Aveces siento que eres un angel que vino a [...]

Mind Scraps: Frogs and Turtles, Princes and Princesses

“Do you have a notebook I could use,” I asked my friend Benny – Biologist Benny we call him. “Mine’s about filled up.” That’s when he offered me The Blue Day Notebook. He had just started using it, but insisted on giving it to me. It’s a cute little blue book with a cute little [...]

Love Note

Just as the tears dry up, the emotions wring my heart again, squeezing out yet more bittersweet tears. I cannot describe the EXCITEMENT and ANTICIPATION I feel for this next, upcoming adventure… this move to L.A. I feel as if the seconds could not fly by fast enough. The seconds that separate him and I. [...]

Dance Like No One is Watching…

Live like your last day Drink like its water Theres no tommorow And you think no one can hear you Raise your hands to be called on You know all the answers Your the most colourful thing that i’ve seen Your the most colourful thing that i’ve seen Your the most colourful thing that i’ve [...]