painting in time

A slice of the painting I've been doing lately, photoshop version. I had to put it here to remind me that I have to have to have to finish this painting already which I started last year. I left it untouched due to a fickle mind but have now resumed. I think I aimed too high. The project is a bit too complicated; when I started this I truly believed that it's a worthy aim, complications and all. But honestly….i have to keep picturing in my mind that it's a finished painting already. So God/Allah/Shiva-Shakti/World Spirit help me.

tina's food

tina cooked dinner last night after yoga class. it's a treat to have delicious, fresh from the stove home-cooked meal: salted fresh fish in olive oil, tomato sauce with capers, carrots and potatoes. yes not strictly vegetarian, and i love it.




eggplant omelette, pineapple, organic red rice




a close-up version so you can see how sarap it is

tsk wrong camera angle, inside is brewed avocado leaves with lemon-mint leaf plucked from tina's garden


had rice tea and chocolate bars for dessert while we talked about sri aurobindo and pondicherry, zen, the various gurus, the dalai lama

downdogs at sunset

downdogs, mw yoga 5:30pm class at the UP gym.
the sun sends lightrays into the dance studio, casting shadows and bright yellow splashes, reflected by the wall mirrors.
the heat is bearable, and the people love it that they can sweat so much.

tanay in may

First three days of may, i found myself unexpectedly freed from a 3-day psycho drama workshop which did not push thru. having canceled my yoga and pilates classes for those days, i took advantage of the sudden freedom by going to tanay and getting more tan and enjoying the plants and animals.


















we have an unresolved argument between my brother, his wife, and me. they both say this is a water lily. i always thought this is a lotus, with pink and white variations....
















so many summer fruits to eat! papaya and magoes are all there for the picking but i devoted my efforts in consuming the lanka

















sitting in the nipa hut on a hot summer afternoon, trying to read a book (walden's pond) after the swim...you can say so much about me by just looking at my feet




































my favorite subjects, apart from the potbelly pigs


friday afternoon was sooo hot, one couldn't possibly think straight with the heat. then it rained hard that night, a welcome respite from the heat.
i woke up in the morning with the wetness of the rain covering the leaves, the ground, the air. it started to become hot again by noon. by late afternoon the sky turned dark while i was practicing my freestyle strokes, then the rain came,
along with thunder, along with the wind. swimming out there in the open became a nature event as i felt the elements impress their presence on me. what else is one to do except open ones arms and welcome the rain! it rained throughout the night.
so even on hot summer days there are days when the rain comes to cool the earth...i never really noticed this in previous years...or i wonder is it the global warming that turns hot days into stormy nights? it's not that bad...

ducks

the way the duck and the goose and the ostrich
dance
to the wind and water
as if rain falling
nowwhere
everywhere