Primera Tomografía de mi Sobrina/o

Primera Ecografía de mi Sobrina/o
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Cecilia fue a que le hicieran la primera ecografía de la pancita y Nano me mandó los resultados en fotos.

Ya se le ve con todas sus presitas!!!!!

Essssaaaa!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm para mediados de julio sabremos .. .

Mi Buenos Aires Querido . . .

Río de La Plata, Delta del Paraná, Costanera Buenos Aires
Originally uploaded by clearwater.

Un año ha pasado desde que aterricé en tus tierras con Paulette.
Un año y se extraña.

Last night I dreamed I was there. I had taken a blitz flight leaving everything here, and I felt I had never left.
Suddenly, rowing with my Mom in the Tigre I started talking to her about how beautiful is to leave and be back, but suddenly I remembered in the dream, that I had my life in Baltimore, with my house, my puppy, my love. How to make both compatible?
How to be part of both sides at the same time?
How?
How???
Being in BA I had the revelation that I would miss my life in the northen region.
And as it happened just a couple of time before in dreams, I started to dream solutions, try scenarios, try alternatives.

I just remember one, because it came as a surprise: live 6 months in each place!!!

How can I do it?
Which season to pick? Summer-Summer? Winter-Winter?

I love these dreams. I have a glympse of what it would be like to live as an Athshean, in Ursula LeGuin's "The Word for World is Forest"

more on the Athsheans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Word_for_World_is_Forest
more on Ursula:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/leguin.htm


...cuando yo te vuelva a ver!!!

and then there was light ...

and then there was light ...,
originally uploaded

by clearwater.

It is a really big industry . . . plant trees, pines, spruces, firs, let them grow a little and then, Kaput ! Cut them to be sold in December, each year.
After the holly days, the trash collectors pass on certain dates to collect all the dead trees.
I don't know what they do with the corpses. Mulch? Compost?
Several questions come to my mind:
How big is the surface used to plant these trees?
What's the volume of the market?
What's the environmental impact of this industry?

At this point, when I took the picture, I was enjoying the momento a lot, with mi Paulette, JC the esculptor and our dogs.
My brother Nano had visited us and in the morning before leaving to Hamburgo we went to pick a tree for the Kbin. A Frazer Fir tall as a person stands in the Kbin's deck, now completlely lighted for the occasion.

Happy Xmas. . .not yet, thou we are getting ready.

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