passing through Leogan, Haiti

on the way from Jacmel to Port au Prince, you have to go through a town called Leogan.

It was the epicenter of the earthquake that happened on Jan 12th, 2010.

Driving past the landscape and entering near dusk,

one feels how life and death merges into one 

here in Haiti...

colors

cinnamon

burnt umber

ochre

desert

ceramic

copper

henna

russet

kashmir

wood

snow

deep winter is yet to come,

showing the beginnings of it now.

ready?

sketch.

sat night

stayed in saturday night to work on a new piece.

came out a bit darker than I had thought,

but letting whatever inside just home out- let go of ideas

of what should, what is..

and just let it flow to wherever it wants to go.

Holy Ones

Become drinkers of nectar, all of you - 
drinkers of the wine of immortality.
Tread the path of immortality,
where no death exists and no disease.
Anandamayi ma-

end of the weekend

beginning of the week.
end of autumn,
beginning of winter.
end of 2010,
beginning of 2011.

winter is here, full on.

base reality

holding onto a base reality limits us.  be open.  happy. vast as the night sky. infinite edge of the ocean.