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"May we exist in muddy water with purity like a lotus, thus we bow to Buddha."
 

Aloft, Valle de Bravo, Mexico (12-4-10)
 

Flower vendor, Cuernavaca, Mexico (12-10-10)
 

Earth laughs in flowers.
                               – Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

Balloon Vendor I, Cuernavaca, Mexico (11-7-10)
 

...Jesus blows up balloons all day
Sits on the porch swing watching them fly...
                                                  – Elton John & Bernie Taupin
                   Levon
 

Balloon Vendor II, Cuernavaca, Mexico (11-7-10)
 

...And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus
Leaving Levon far behind...
                                    – Elton John & Bernie Taupin
    Levon
 

Tepoztlán Cemetery, Tepoztlán, Mexico (11-2-10)
 

After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs;
                                              – Emily Dickenson
                                                                                         After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes
 

Playboy, Cuernavaca, Mexico (11-19-10)
 

If you're going through hell, keep going.  ~Winston Churchill
 

Parroquía de la Resurreción del Señor y Santa María de Guadalupe, Cuernavaca, Mexico (11-7-10)
 

Isis, oh, Isis, you mystical child
What drives me to you is what drives me insane
I still can remember the way that you smiled
On the fifth day of May in the drizzlin' rain.
                                                         – Bob Dylan
                                                 Isis
 

Handcart, Cuernavaca, Mexico (11-7-10)
 

We've taken all you've given
But it's gettin' hard to make a livin'
Mr. President have pity on the working man
                                   – Randy Newman
                                      "Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)"
 

Handcart, Cuernavaca, Mexico (11-7-10)
 

We've taken all you've given
But it's gettin' hard to make a livin'
Mr. President have pity on the working man
                                   – Randy Newman
                                      "Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)"
 

San Miguel Chapel, San Miguel Acapantzingo, Morelos, Mx.
 

Public Water Faucet, Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mx (11-2-10)
 

From the bathing tub
I throw water into the lake –
Slight muddiness appears.
                   – Kawahigashi, Hekigodo (1873-1937).
 

Cemetery, Tepoztán, Morelos, Mx
 

Empty-handed I entered
the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going --
Two simple happenings
That got entangled.
Like dew drops
on a lotus leaf
                      – Kozan Ichikyo
                         Died February 12, 1360, Age 77

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) 2010

Plaza de Armas, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mx. (10-30-10)
 

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume 
and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
                                                                                               – Chuck Palahniuk
 

Emiliano Zapata shrine
Día de los Muertos, Plaza de Armas, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mx. (10-30-10)
 

Emiliano Zapata (1879 - 1919) rose from humble beginnings to become a hero of the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican Revolution (1910 - 1920) was a class struggle and civil war in Mexico generally pitting the poor campesinos against the oppressive regime of Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz. Zapata is especially revered in Morelos, Mexico, the place of his birth.
 

Emiliano Zapata shrine
Día de los Muertos, Plaza de Armas, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mx. (10-30-10)
 

Es mejor morir de pie, que vivir de rodilla.
                                                               – Emiliano Zapata (1879 - 1919)

  ["It's better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees."]
 

Guitar Player, Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mx (11-2-2010
 

Corazonadas
deep memories of the earth
emerge triumphant
                                         – Inés Hernández-Ávila
 

Tashi Gomang Stupa, Crestone, Co (9-25-10)
("The Stupa of Many Auspicious Doors" – thus named
for Buddha's 84,000 paths to enlightenment)
 

A STUPA is a Buddhist monument erected as a commemorative shrine and site of pilgrimage. Stupas are typically filled with hundreds of thousands of Buddhist religious relics. Buddhist practitioners circumambulate (walk around) stupas while reciting mantras as a form of spiritual discipline. 
 

Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Crestone, CO (10-9-10)