Obertura [el amor] Homenaje a Juan Gabriel

Mexico lost a great music icon today!  Rest in Peace.

Shitty First Draft-2.0

How I spent my Saturday night. Two fractures on foot after mom slipped out of bed. I just want to fucking scream! My energy is shot and feeling zapped. This is just the beginning of the long road ahead. Hard to keep the faith sometimes. 

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue - 1959 (Complete Album)

Raising a glass to this masterpiece of music!

Today in 1959, Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" was released. The album is considered to be one of the greatest records of all time, and one of the most influential titles in the history of jazz. John Coltrane played tenor sax on the LP, as part of Davis' sextet. The best selling jazz record of all time still sells 5,000 copies a week!

Estoy Bien!

Saw this and fell in love with it! Sooo looking forward to traveling back to Mexico City in the fall and visiting Casa Azul and paying homage to Frida! 

Tina Turner - Nam Myoho Renge Kyo (2 Hours Buddhist Daimoku)

need 2/want 2 clear my meditation room which has been in disarray, light candles and incense, play this and drift into another realm.  Who knew that Tina Turner rockstar could chant!

Ironía

Mi ironia como siempre
tu ironia
y que ironia que significa lo que nos paso
y porque
y cuando se acaba este ironia
cuando otros no parece que sufran de tanto ironia
cual es su secreto ...

The Wilderness

Still soaking in the beauty of the wilderness that was experienced a few weeks back in northwest Idaho. I wish I could be like this couple biking through Canada. I want to experience more of this and get lost for a day along the shores of Lake Coeur d' Alene . For I never felt so connected to my soul and to the cosmos when looking at the stars at night or birding along the open fields and hearing the silence of nature.  At the top of the mountains in Schweitzer, I felt so much closer to the heavens breathing in the fresh mountain air of what I call God's country!  The wilderness is such a great teacher.  

Sancerre heaven

Feeling right at home up here in northern Idaho -thanks to some fine wine that our host Rich & his wife Carol have opened up for us.  Such beautiful scenery here in Lake Hayden.  

Happy bike riders

Greetings from Idaho-1st ride (25 miles) in the cool north winds of lake Couer d' Alene.

a brisk chilly north wind blew us across the beautiful lake in Couer d' Alene in the late morning but the afternoon the sun made a small appearance.  The bike ride took us to Harrison and back but not before indulging in some huckleberry ice cream.  

Tu cárcel

"te vas porque quieres"... after a few shots of tequila this is the perfect song, (SIGH)!

Don't Cry For Me Argentina

oh, but we are crying tonight as I'm sure scores of soccer fans across the globe who were cheering for Messi tonight.  I so enjoy fútbol in such games as Copa America, World Cup and Olympics.  Unfortunately, Messi gave the golden cup to Chile! 

Solstitium

In my glass: H2O
Music: Jesse Cook
Mood:  UGH!!!


First day of summer!  YUCK!!  My misery/hibernation time begins--least till I get chance to escape in a few weeks.  Although, did go on a 15 mile bike ride Sunday morning and possibly another ride on Saturday.  This year my escape will be Idaho and previous summer's included Seattle and Oregon but lately the north has been experiencing heat waves as well.  Missed much of the strawberry full moon rising earlier as I was taking care of some business matters.  Like for starters--making out a will!  Yep, the time has come or rather passed.

The Middle Ages

Looking back...

..now I see what I would've changed-if only I'd known.  Yeah right!
not where I thought I'd be--dang the middle ages got here FAST and so many dreams distilled and so many discarded and that voice that asks, "how did you get here... & where do you belong".

Some come to a place of reckoning but I've arrived with the questions still beckoning in the back of mind  ...welcome to the middle ages. Thank you MCC for the story telling that hits so close to home.

Clarissa Serna - El Dorado (Official Music Video)

Great new music by Clarissa--straight out of Corpus Christi and that's my cousin/Andrew Ita with the hoodie playing percussion in the video!

So Long May!

It was a long 31 days but thankful for the...

...holiday 

...crawfish pero mucho mas por favor 

...revelation about mom. Some good news and not so good

...friends near and far who kept me sane

...margaritas on Cinco de Mayo

...new music by Mary Chapin Carpenter

...bike rides of 13 & 15 miles

...getting back in the gym-on a mission with 6 weeks to go 

Onwards to June but here comes the GD heat, humidity and Texas size mosquitos but it's one more month closer to July and vacation! PLEASE God-I need this trip!!

Happy Birthday Olivia Harrison

Happy Birthday to Olivia Harrison--the Mexican beauty who was the wife to my favorite of the Beatles, George Harrison.   She is the epitome of class, beauty and brains and in my opinion rock music royalty keeping the memory of George alive.  What I would give to meet her one day!

What Does It Mean To Travel (Lyric Video) - Mary Chapin Carpenter - Mary...

I was supposed to be on a plane to Japan today--they took off without me and I find myself looking at my watch for the time and checking the weather with their itinerary.  But here I am cumbered and tethered by duty to family and work and feeling resentful.  :-(

MCC captures the essence of travel so well with her song.  There are those that say that travel is a waste of time and money --that we're just chasing what's already gone.  But for me it's always called my name even though I really hate flying. There's just something about going and coming and discovering new places.  I still hear those bells in Brussels from last spring! The charm of Utrecht--whenever I retire I want to spend about two months there.  How I long to go back to Seattle--the Emerald City.  If I could I would live there, then again New Mexico has always been that place that is sacred to me for various reason.  Walking half way down Manhattan and driving down open country roads in Ohio.

Yes, I want to hold my suitcase by the handle and be waking/running and I want to be going/coming...
Today, tonight I want to feel my heart expanding with excitement and I don't want to be alone, I just want to be someone else, untethered and unknown while being far from home and Japan surely would've been far from home.  Alas, I hope to be on that plane in July to Idaho and discover what does it mean to travel.  Still, I wish I were in Japan now.

The Blue Distance (Lyric Video) - Mary Chapin Carpenter - Mary Chapin Ca...

Sometimes I'm still--like last night after I got the phone call
Sometimes I'm lost-like driving home two nights ago when the road seemed so long
Sometimes I wait by the door--yet I can't explain
Sometime it fills up my chest, it fills up my eyes-- like this afternoon

In the blue distance... is where I want to be walking along in my boots, hat and faded jeans feeling the coolness of the evening as the sun sets.

Happy Mother's Day to me!

typing this with some sweet tears.....

Parenthood 

at 50 something!

I love you mom!

We wear our sunglasses at night!

April Come She Will

Another April come/came she will and boy did she leave her mark & how I wish I could rewind and start over.  April took away a lot this past month.  First with the loss of another beloved friend-Henry.  I couldn't believe it then and I still can't that you were taken in such a tragic way. Such a dear, sweet soul who will be missed dearly.  We never did go and grab that coffee with Ms. Gail.

April come she will with her streams of rain falling and swelling over again into previous affected neighborhoods that lost so much last Memorial weekend.

May, I doubt you'll stay resting upon my mother's arm again in a manner that she'll remember.  :-(
Who knew that an infection would send my mom free-falling into a backwards spiral that would have her memory to falter even more.  Gone are the daily phone calls to make sure I get home safely. Gone are the repeated questions.  Gone is the familiar face I knew so well.  Instead I see a stranger in my mom's body.

June will change her tune and I'm sure I'll be taking those restless walks prowling the night in my hallway seeking answers as to why?

July--I still  hope to fly to Idaho and take a much  needed vacation.  Please!!

August --I hope you fade fast taking with you your dreaded heat and humidity.

September--I will always remember a love that was new but grew old.  Just like life that was so new before this month and has now grown old.

and now I want to be laughing in the Purple Rain!  Not crying like I was that night two weeks ago.