half-life

likely you are living around your half-life already, assuming you die in that withering age of seventies. you are probably thinking what better ways to live that remaining half-life. some have already said you have accomplished so much already. you think not enough and you can do a whole lot more. especially with the opportune conditions. luck has it. god has it. and all else, they have it. you still grab on, optimising relevant niches, enriching options for others to soar.

in a few days, you will inch a bit closer to that ageing life. yes you are still young but you are also old. trapped in that unsure middle age - whether to start over, maintain, or perhaps lead and flow.

time for you has become ever more limited and passing. and you know, deep in your heart, you are more than capable and you will reach your heights.


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photo:
machu picchu, aguas calientest
cusco | peru
september 2015

vast spaces

there is no empty lost space. that was what he told me. any space is occupied, even by what humans may think to be the most inconsequential life form, however small, all spaces are occupied and taken. anyone lost can be found. displaced can be placed. or replaced. the vastness of the world limits. constrains. life is space occupied. living is space expanded.


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vastlands
on the road from puno to arequipa | peru
september 2015 

one man's world

experience is one person's monopoly of the own's perception and reaction to matters around and about. this monopoly of experience leads us to capture what matters, oftentimes, at the expense of others. 


photo:
lago sandoval, tambopata reserve
puerto maldonado | peru
september 2015

reali(s)ies

"you go outside. make yourself believe you're seeing the world as it is. convincing yourself to go out. so you go outside. then see what you think is a hardworking man. with a wife and a young child trailing behind. suddenly you just can't help yourself form zoning out and thinking about what you've been doing for these long years. you realise. you're getting old and irrelevant."


photo:
playa chifron, capachica, puno | peru
september 2015

seen buzzing in the foliage sneaking its long pointed beak into the hibiscus
in a frenzy along a roundabout park near the huaca pucllana site in lima, peru

photo:
amazilia hummingbird (Amazilia amazilia)
huaca pucllana, lima | peru
september 2015

southbound

and they flew to the yonder south, hoping that the waters hold riches to keep their plumage enflamed

photo:
flamingos over lake titicaca
capachica, puno | peru
september 2015 

quo

he would have continued on the same path.

drifting -
comfortably where the draft makes its sure pass,
securely above the highest rising of sure tides.

photo:
refugio de vida silvestre los pantanos de villa
lima | peru
september 2015

paso de patopampa

on the road between arequipa and chivay, travelers come across a highest pass point at around 4,900m. at the mirador de los volcanes viewpoint, one can find his/her air-deprived soul absorbed in the vastness of this almost lifeless patch of earth surrounded by snowcapped volcanoes that appear ever rising higher.

photo:
paso de patopampa | reserva nacional salinas - aguada blancas
arequipa | peru
september 201

idleness

represented by the gradual fall of the sands,
the occasional flurry of dust over the vast dryness
of time.

photo:
ruinas de pachacamac
lima | peru
september 2015