Eli
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And the circle completes
As I mentioned before, with the motavation of being presented with the opportunity to paint what ever the heck I want on any wall that strikes my
fancy, I moved back to the Posada where I originally began this cycle of creativity that has sprung forth since I arrived last July here in Oaxaca.
So today, I fell out of bed and even before combing my hair; I saw the sillest of an image on the wall and jumped right in and started the mural in my
room this morning. It is a little guy to one side of the bathroom sink, about 1 mt. tall x 50 cm. wide.
It felt like a true turn of the wheel, soon I will go home to Baja with a complete sence of major accomplishment. When I lived at the posada before,
Don Lalo always said PAINT BIG! Go ahead and do a wall, but I had neither the materials, nor even the knowledge of what brushes or paint to use, much
less the courage to do so. Yes, truly this is the completion of a very important cycle in my life.
Praise be, I swear what a little paint and a few brushes can do for the creative spirit, with a little application of color to that wall, my heart
does sing to the point of gentle tears of joy rolling down my cheeks as I paint my silly man with the bird riding on his head. Ah yes, simple
pleasures for a simple mind, finding the joy in life is just that easy sometimes.
Grande son los Saludos a todos ese dia tan bonita, Sara
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Mexitron
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Glad you're catching that joy while you've got the chance!
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Mike Humfreville
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Sara,
It's not the completion of a circle. It's the cycle of a continuing spiral. It just gets better the closer you come to finding your stride. Keep
searching. You can lead the way for many of us.
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Eli
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You are most correct Miguel, it must be a spiral.
I stopped in at Jardin de La Bastida to visit with a master painter that is loved and respected by many more than just me here in Oaxaca. Don Federico
Flores Aguilar brings life to canvas like no master alive that I know of.
Man, he leaves me in awe, to sit at his feet and have him critique my work is such an honor. And so I did today, for the first time in months, I got
brave enough to visit him and show him my lastest sketch pad. He is so kind, what a dude and a gentle man ta-boot, his main line of advise, GO BIG,
and paint, you are an artist Sara, you are just finding yourself, you are riding a sprial of evalution in your work and it can only go up. I have
walked in a cloud of the masters praise for the rest of this sweet day!
And than I come into Mike's comment about sprialing, Wow, I tell you, is that cosmic or what? Two men to respect give me the same analogy, I am on a
sprial, hummmm, o.k., I will run with that one, no doubt. Thanks cosmos!
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Sallysouth
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Thats it!
You go girl! Some of us here know of your exceptional talents. Mike is so right, so don't stop now!! Congrats to you, in more ways than one! (check
your U2U).
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Keri
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Happiness
Sara, I love you ,you paint such wonderful pictures with your words. You make me happy.You make my heart sing, Glad you are finding your own self
worth and sharing it with the rest of us, Thanks Mucho k 
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Mike Humfreville
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Another cycle of the spiral?
This afternoon I was at an off ramp, stopped and waiting at the signal. I noticed movement on the median to my left and looked to see a young Latin
boy.
He was selling roses. As the signal was against us, he retrieved a single package and started with me; I was first in the line of cars waiting. He
attracted my attention by waving the flowers near the window. I was already watching. I shook my head, waved in friendship and smiled.
The boy was about 15, nicely dressed, and sad.
I wished I had a need for roses, I thought I could take some home for the post Christmas dip in spirit. But the signal changed and I wasn?t going to
hold up the rest of our lane. I drove off with the boys eyes in my mind.
A few days before, I had stood in a long line at a Big Lots store with a simple tool chest, the plastic, $3 kind. Most of the folks in line were
Mexican laborers who had worked the muddy fields that day and had just a moment to buy gifts before they ran home to share the eve with their
families.
On Christmas day, with the four of us opening our many gifts and later sharing with others, I thought back about the folks in the Big Lots store,
spending limited funds on small gifts, and how those gifts were received and appreciated.
Life is different for all of us, but we all have a chance to grasp what we can, hold it close and run as far as we can ?til we tire or don?t care
anymore, or just give up.
Looking back on this afternoon, I wish I?d bought those roses.
I made an observation to Mary Ann the other day about marriage. It wasn't romantic but I believe it was still valid.
I said that marriage started with the "infatuation" phase and eventually passed into the "maintenance" phase. I believe this to be true.
But when I read your words that started this post and reflected back on what limited knowledge I have of you and your dad, and worked your world and
words together I found myself realizing that within each phase, infatuation or maintenance, there are phases as well, ad infinitum.
I guess thats what the spiral is all about.
[Edited on 1-5-2005 by Mike Humfreville]
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Eli
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Always buy the roses
Well Mike, now that was food for thought and the evocation of memories.
I expect we all have moments of hesiation, opportunities that may haunt us until the day we die.
Although I have never been all that successful in the endevors a marriage myself, I imagine it is never to late to buy roses. Next time you have a
chance, take some roses to Mary Ann, can't believe they won't evoke a smile and a twinkle in her eye, can't imagine a woman who would not appriciate
receiving flowers of any kind, I know the few times I have, were sweet moments never to be forgotton, no matter what.
As far as a young mans sad eyes following you, well, they may go ahead and do that for the rest of your life; I think it is something we all at some
time or another encounter and carry with us forever on afterwards.
I remember the nun's singing a dawn mass at a small chapel in San Miguel de Allende years ago. There was a tiny frail figure sitting a few pews in
front of me; she was wrapped in a thread barren tired and dirty reboso, her poverty, hunger and abandonment by the graces of humanity so obvious as I
watched her hunch there praying for a miricle. I thought about slipping up next to her and passing her a "Sor Juana de La Cruz" (200 peso note) and
giving her a little hug, but I didn't, I felt way to shy to do such a thing. I was wealthy that week, on vacation, the $200 pesos was nothing to me,
and it could have brought us both such joy in the moment, but I didn't, and it will always haunt me that I had that wondeful opportunity to create a
miricle stright from heaven for Her and Me and dagomit, I let it pass. So be it. I must let it go, or at least accept it and remember the times that I
did let the forces move me to create a smile in someones eyes that came right back and blessed me.
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Baja Bernie
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Eli, Sally, Sara
I look at what you have written and then what Mike revealed of himself and then I just sat here with a funny, hollow feeling coursing through me. I
thought of some really sad things and then of even more happy feelings. Then I thought of the Circles that form the Logo of the World Olympics and
that is when it all came together for me. You are a world class lady who is filled with many, many things that must be shared with others as you
stumble, struggle, then climb and soar above those clouds you loved so in the land of the little, big people.
The way you touch people is your highest form of creation. I know that you have touched me and caused me to think in ways that were unavailable to me
before we started sharing our views of life.
Fortunately, for all the members of this board there will be numerous other circles of life for you to share with us.
You not only make people smile you make them see more worth in themselves with your passing. Most importantly, to me, you make them look up and
embrace new thoughts and feelings.
Thank you.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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Mike Humfreville
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Perhaps it's not an individual we can be supportive of, your nun or my child of the flowers. Perhaps we just question and then continue on our paths,
let each other know we care, and move forward.
In my analogy, the phases we might pass through in relationships: "infatuation" and "maintenance" are simple terms that serve to form concepts. In
both we care for others.
Infatuation implies a short term, high intensity involvement. Maintenance involves a longer term, lower intensity relationship.
Your life at this point is finding new horizons and you?re hitting your new stride and experiencing things that are new to you. I am so happy for
you. Your excitement reflects in your words.
I, too, am experiencing new activities. Even though Mary Ann and I are in the ?maintenance? mode of our relationship, we pass through the major
shifts of our tandem lives looking forward to the new experiences.
That was my point in ?spiraling.?
I guess my overall point is that it?s great to be experiencing new stuff. I don?t want to live in a vacuum. We look forward to change and I hope all
of us can cope with that.
And you, Sara, can help many of us with your posts. You keep our minds rolling with your observations of the focused events we might be too occupied
because of our obsessive lifestyle to observe.
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Eli
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WOW Don Bernie, Miguel, Keri, Sally, Meixton and all,
Thank You so much for your kind words of encouragment. Almost intimadting in a sence, like now what can I come up with? You almost leave me
speechless, but not quite, jeje.
Our conversation got me wondering about the sillest little thing Mike, if Mary Ann brought you flowers, how would you react? Really that is a question
for all the guys. I can't for the life of me imagine that any human alive at any point in their relationship would not get this romantic bone tickled
by such an act.
Of course, I am a hopless romantic and only projecting my own perspective.
[Edited on 1-7-2005 by Eli]
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