There’s an abandoned, half-finished hotel on the Kalpulli, here where Tracy lives. We explored it a little today because it’s for sale, and our imaginations were kind of activated by the thoughts of what we might do with such a space.
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Collapsed Wall
You can also see our k-9 escorts here.
Adobe Structure
On our way home, we found this structure that is collapsing on one side. Tracy thinks it was used for employees who stayed here to take care of livestock at some point in the past. One wall has collapsed so that we can study the construction and materials.
Cactus
An interesting part of the landscape south of the border, though you don’t want to get too close.
Profile Picture
Cool frame, huh?
Old Friend
The Golden Tree
What a sight this old creature is. Her bark is golden, and soft to the touch. We climbed up into her, and she offered a lovely place to perch for my new profile pic.
Dry Creek
This creek is damp now, with a little water trickle, but it will be much dryer in the months to come. Can you tell that Tracy is a reporter?
Golden Cosmos
Tracy took me out to meet a friend of hers – the Golden Tree. This is the fall season, and it is said in these parts that the gold fire-colored flowers are a warning for us to prepare for fire prevention, will be necessary in the season to come. For now, we are enjoying the flowers.
Daring to Trust
I am absolutely loving having time to read. The two books I was reading together: A Course In Love and Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love & Intimacy, by David Richo were perfect companions. What I’m still processing from them is such important material. It is helping me to fill in the missing pieces of my Boundaries 101 class. Problem is, the class is still just 5 weeks. Ah well, we’ll just have to use our time well. Really well.
Daring To Trust is such a practical and comprehensive book. Offered from a Buddhist perspective, it covers everything from describing what healthy trust is, to explaining why trust has been a problem for many of us in the past, and always with compassion for ourselves and others. Here is another sample:
… building inner resources so that our safety and security lie stably within ourselves. Such inner resources help us look at others with a desire for connection rather than with neediness…. utterly thorough and conditional yes to the given of human caprice, something we notice now not with horror and blame but with understanding and even amusement.
pg 28: …we can practice a style that helps us know ourselves more deeply. We can first follow our need to see what it reveals about us and only after that seek fulfillment of the need, now understood more accurately. A need is then like the White Rabbit that leads Alice down the rabbit hole into Wonderland, the unconscious part of herself where she discovers qualities in herself previously unknown to her. A need can do that for us if instead of immediately running to someone for fulfillment, we take time to explore it. Perhaps our need for wholehearted unconditional love shows us what we missed in childhood.
Now we are reading our needs and using them as resources for self-knowledge. We are finding out that what we want tells us something meaningful about ourselves.
pg 29: We know ourselves deeply when we trust that we have an enlightened nature always underlying our choices and behavior, no matter how unenlightened they may seem. Read more David Richo here.