Yesterday

Yesterday, I took pictures.

Matt Romero at the Santa Fe Farmer's Market

Our friends JC and Rae

The press was out covering the March Against Monsanto

Santa Fe's March Against Monsanto

Congregating at the Roundhouse for
Santa Fe's March Against Monsanto

At home in the afternoon

Nick is always my photography subject

Sunset hike to Castle Rock, Santa Fe

Sunset over Santa Fe

Watching the sunset from Castle Rock

My favorite photo of the day: Clouds after sunset from Castle Rock

The Most Powerful Thing

In the past couple days, I have been pondering the concept of "power".  What is the most powerful thing?

Love.

Love is the most powerful thing.  In the world, the universe, the multiverses and whatever lies beyond. Love, without any other motivation.  Just pure, unconditional love (which is actually more rare than one would hope).

Why love?

Think about unconditional love. It is ceaseless, timeless, boundless. It is not logical.  Perhaps deeply biological, but not logical.

That love is so incredibly powerful.  By loving unconditionally, a person doesn't have any expectations or desires of the other person.

The traditional route to power - hatred and oppression - leads to rebellion.  But who would rebel against love?

Imagine if you truly loved every single human on this planet. Yes, there would be the handful of people who may want to take advantage of that love, but most people would eventually love you back.  And if (almost) every person on this planet loves you... what could be more powerful than that?  You would never be homeless or hungry.

You would never be in need of a single thing.

Imagine if every being on this planet loved one another. There would be no suffering at the hands of man.

And here's the twist...By loving, you have no desire for power.  That disregard for control - the lack of want or expectation - is the most powerful thing.

"I lift my eyes and all is born again."

e.e. cummings

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginably You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

-e.e. cummings

you are here

"Driving Directions to Santa Fe"

That would be significantly out of the way.

This is actually the map of what my life - with Nick - is going to look like from July 9th until ??  And, just to add, this does not include July 1-9, which is driving from Santa Fe to Denver, flying to DC, taking a bus to NYC and flying back into Denver.

We just bought a car on Friday and I sold my car about an hour ago. I gave my notice at work on Thursday.   This past week has been exciting, crazy, maybe a little scary... and it's only the beginning of the adventure.

Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park, Banff National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Denali National Park, Gates of the Arctic National Park, The ALCAN Highway, Vancouver, The Pacific Northwest, Mount Rushmore, Acadia National Park...etc.

So, it is likely that I will have a lot of blog updates pertaining to this trip.  Or, unlikely, depending on how much internet is available along the way!

2 countries
3 weddings
230 hours driving time
2,000 dollars in gas
13,000 miles across North America