MERRY X-MAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR, A SUBJECTIVE REALITY.

Beside our home.

photo : Lefebvre / La Cora / Nayarit
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Peaceful shine over all for 2012.
I had quickly prepared these 2 postcards, X-mas and New Year's mix, never took time to choose and send them to friends. The Cascade one is not even a metaphor image, since we got lost trying to find it —it's not as if their is any signage or someone to ask directions too. We were so grateful when we reached our Graal. We had walked for an hour before seeing two Mexican men with on a horse and donkey, telling us we had missed the slight road turn at the end of the village. We had to walk back up an hour, on that fairly steep dirt road we had taken, down into a valley —luckily beautiful and in great company of our kids— take the good camino, and walk in new direction for another hour. Then, escalate from the top, to reach the lake part. Amazing view, amazing swim, amazing new year wishes to all.

In my last assignment I wrote that I wondered if my personal perceptions were influencing my interpretation of Maturana, a reading on Cognition —Objectivity/Reality —we were given that week. when I later read our teacher, Bob Kull clarify that Maturana and Poekerson «say that there is no single objective world out there that we are experiencing each in our own way» rather, «each organism enacts the reality it experiences, via its own process of cognition and determined by its physical structure.» Perhaps the 6 of us experienced the swim and view very differently, but deep contempt was on everyone's face and the reality of nature's beauty that day, would not be contested by any of us.

Maturana, H. R., & Poerksen, B. (2004). Varieties of Objectivity; a Conversation from Being to Doing. The Origins of the Biology of Cognition (pp. 1-8). Germany: Carl-Auer. Retrieved from http://www.carl-auer.com/.

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FOOD DIFFERENCES NUMERO UNO Y DOS

Photo : Lefebvre/San Blas/2011
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UNO : MEXICAN PEANUTS are generous
We found that Mexican peanuts, —Fabaces family plant—(Arachis hypogaea), which find their origin in Mexico, generally have three or four peanuts inside their shell. Less work, more efficiency.
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Photo : Lefebvre/San Blas/2011
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DOS : MEXICAN OMELETS comes in a paella dish.
We were entitled several Mexican omelets, concocted by Charlie, who's navel we here see. Charlie and Julia have gone back home and as a sad result, we have not had such amazing breakfasts since, although frugal ones are welcome after 10 days of festivities. If recipe is easy, the love put it its preparation makes each one unique. (Eggs from street run free and dog chased fast Mexican pollos, Mexican cebollas (onions), Mexican queso (cheese from very slim cows who would wonder on the beach sometimes), and Mexican tomates, unfortunately not organically grown in San Blas fields to local market. )
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MISSIGN SOME RR'S IN SAN BLAS

Photos : Lefebvre/San Blas/2011
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No such thing as paper recycling (...), nor metal (although we were told we should find someone who would be willing to have it to go sell it, we tried, wiping refusals). No more glass bottle recycling except bear returnables. Nevertheless, there appears to be four ways to dispose of plastics: recycling it, throwing it in the wild, into the sea, or burning it, a method used in everyday life around us. It is difficult to witness, and to resign ourselves to throw so much in the trash when we have no such habits or envies, which is not a trial but a sad commentary.
Citations from 2 of this week's reading:

«There is a systematic tendency on the part of human to avoid accountability for their own decisions.
Meadow, D.H. (2008) Thinking In Systems: A Primer, p. 157

«The truth is that many things on which your future health and prosperity depend are in dire jeopardy: climate stability, the resilience and productivity of natural systems, the beauty of the natural world, and biological diversity.»
Orr, D. (1991, Winter). What is Education For? Six myths about the foundation of modern education, and six new principles to replace them. In Context [The learning revolution], 27, 52.
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