i left this room unattended for too long, i guess is time to come back here and let my fingers run and my thoughts fly
floating around, trying to figure out what to do where to go :(
Thank the almighty for all you have lived, all
that you are. Connect with your Heart, feel it
beating. Breathe, listen. Rise and breathe again.
Your Smile will Illuminate the Path...
Leave what you are doing. Seat yourself. Repose.
Set your spine upright. Relax your eyes. Gaze at
the horizon without focusing on anything in
particular. Sweep the infinite with a mild glance.
You are part of the universe, son of the sky, of
the earth and of time. Brother of the sun and
the moon. Your life is related to everything you see.
You are part of it. You have all that you need to be
happy, so do not search further from yourself.
(Path of the Warrior by Lucas Estrella Schultz)
You have been too long in this place. The air is rarified.
Your life is stagnant, you do not flow. You must, therefore,
leave in search of new dawns. Your setting no longer brings
you new things. Leave the superfluous, take with you only
what is essential, the minimum possible. Your heart, your
spirit and your body are enough. Put your affairs in order
before you go. Close the circles, leave no loose ends.
May your departure be natural, just like the migrating cranes
in winter. There is no need to escape. Simply leave this
place, this situation, behind. Go. You will surely find new
Fellow travellers.
You may come back some day.
(Path of the Warrior by Lucas Estrella Schultz)
I find really interesting that as time goes by I find more and more references about Chile in Hollywood movies. The first time I came across one it was in “Jurassic Park” (1993) were Mr. Hammond invite everybody for lunch and Chilean Bass is on the menu. Then in “There's Something About Mary” (1998) were in one of the scene two supposedly architects (Norm and Pat Healy) talked about visiting Santiago and the National Soccer Stadium. Talking about history in 2003 the movie “Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World” Russell Crowe talks about Valparaiso which was in its time a very famous port among sailors from the old world. In 2000 the TV series “Jesse” starting Christina Applegate portrait her as a single mother who hired Diego as a babysitter, an illegal immigrant from Chile, whom happen to be a Brazilian actor. And now “the class” a TV series that talks about the ups and downs of a group of classmates who run into each other after 20 years, one of them has a Chilean boyfriend which is in fact a very famous Chilean actor.
In the movies I had the pleasure to see more and more Chilean actors in Hollywood: Cristian de la Fuente (Driven, Basic, CSI Miami, The Class); Leonor Varela (The Tailor of Panama, Blade 2, Innocent Voices); Santiago Cabrera (Heroes).
What I like about this is that they are accurate and more people are aware of this long and skinny country in the far ends of the world.
So if you find any other movie, that I didn’t named here, where Chile is named in any way, let me know :D
While my dear friends in the Northern Hemisphere are trying to cool down after all the Heat waves of the summer, or running away from the Typhoons, we, here in the South are freezing to death.
We had snow, now if you tell me that is cool, i agreed but i live in a City on a valley that has not seen snow in 20 years :S
its kind of weird, it was really exciting to see the snow fall into my yard, i felt like a little kid on Christmas day, consider that in Chile is +35C on Christmas day.
The weather man is talking about another cold front, so i guess as time pass we will begin to get used to, we are just going to have to seal the house for next winter and put the snowboard next to the front door :D
btw the picture was taken on August 9th,2007, the camera date was setup wrong, sorry about that.
For many years i read, even watched in movies how western man retreat into the mountains of Tibet to find themselves after a crashing change or a broken soul after the war.
Coming back home to the country that saw my birth supposed to be something joyful and exciting, but after been outside this borders for so long i feel my self an alien in my own land.
Once i heard my friends back in Taiwan telling me how much we all have changed but all seem the same to me.
It´s been three months since i dropped from the scene, retreated into myself to digest and meditate about all that happen in my Asian life, all the scents, the flavors, the sounds everything that became part of me and that whether i noticed or not, moves with me along the way.
In the Tibetan tales, or the movies you can see how western man broken by the circumstances find themselves learning of what is really precious and important, things that comes from inside and not from the outside world, you see them burning their favorite books to keep warm on the top of the icy mountains, or walking amazing distances in pilgrimage, all that sounds even romantic,
can somebody that lived in the East retreat to the West?
What happen with the rest of us always bombed by the constant stimulation of the media, or the social pressure "you should be doing this or that at certain age.." even those who do not follow the crowd and do things their way get to a point where they ask themselves "did i do things right o not?"
Remember what Bilbo used to say: "It's a dangerous business, Frodo,
going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your
feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."
or as Frodo said "How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when
in your heart, you begin to understand... there is no going back? There
are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep...
that have taken hold."
i have heard many people saying "you have to forget!" but why? we are made and mold by our memories, good and bad; we should not forget, learn from it, but never forget cause that love and that pain made us who we are today.....
"He came home from the war like a lot of other soldiers. He was tired of fighting, and he was very glad to be coming home. There were things that had happened to him and he knew that he was not the same person he had been when he left. He had changed and he wondered about all the things here at home that might have changed, too, while he'd been away. But sometimes when you go somewhere far away and then come back, the part that bothers you the most is not the things that have changed but the way that other things have stayed the same, like you hand't been anywhere or done anything at all. The kids would still play ball in the vacant lot where he and his friends had played every summer. The high-school band would still play every Friday night in the park downtown, and old Mrs. Parker would still be waiting when the kids came home from school, to yell at them if they stepped on her flowers. All of that might still be the same, but he was different, and so nothing would really be the same at all."
