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little angels

Cashew season continues. Britney and Emily dropped by, once again, to sell roasted cashews.

that burning desire

When you find that burning desire to be or do something, you've found a powerful force that can cut through seemingly impossible circumstances and limitations.

- lessons from The Secret

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bliss beach

Bliss Beach is simply beyond words. These captures speak for themselves.

Paya Bay Resort, Roatan, Bay Islands of Honduras

we can choose to start anew anytime

We can choose to start over in this very moment, there is no need to wait for a new year or a new month or a new week.

There are times in our lives that lend themselves to starting something new. The beginning of a new year, finishing school, leaving a job, or changing homes—these all are times that turn our minds to fresh starts. Their advantage is that they bring with them the energy of that event, creating a tide of change around them that we can ride to our next shoreline. But we can choose to start anew anytime. In any moment we can decide that a bad day or a relationship that’s gotten off on the wrong foot can be started again. It is a mental shift that allows us to clean the slate and approach anything with fresh eyes, and we can make that choice at any time.

- The Daily Om 

wonkette's tribute to elie wiesel

Not being a nuclear specialist in any way, I’m scared. I’m scared, because I know that what is imaginable, can happen. I know that the impossible is possible. I’ve seen the film, and while I was watching it, I had a strange feeling that I had seen it before — once upon a time, it happened to my people. And now it happens to all people. And suddenly I said to myself maybe the whole world, strangely, has turned Jewish. Everybody lives now facing the unknown. We are all, in a way, helpless. We are talking about nuclear arms, about the Bomb with a capital B, a kind of divinity in itself. Unless those who know, militarily, what it means — we readers, writers, people — we don’t know what it means. And I hear about thousand bombs, [sic] megatons — I don’t have that kind of imagination. To me it’s an abstraction. But to me, all this means is that the human species may come to an end, that millions of children will die. 

- Elie Wiesel, discussing the 1983 TV movie The Day After

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cacti blooming

This is time of the year when the the cacti growing in the rocky terrain around the property bloom. Interestingly, the flowers open at night (there must be nocturnal pollinators they depend on for their reproduction). Cactus flowers can be astonishingly beautiful and complex for what appear to be rather primitive types of plant life.

I returned after dark to take these photos of the open bloom.

Paya Bay Resort, Roatan, Bay Islands of Honduras.

island horsemen

Late this afternoon I spotted Omar and his buddy riding their horses on the Big Beach.

Paya Bay Resort, Roatan, Bay Islands of Honduras.

video: nature is speaking

punarhanma

Punarhanma, our newest trail at Paya Bay, is named after the sanskrit word for rebirth. It starts at the Ananda Yoga Pavilion, as it should. It is a spiritual, magical. mystical trail.

Paya Bay Resort, Roatan, Bay Islands of Honduras.

so excited to be alive

As you make gratitude a way of life, you will wake up each morning so excited to be alive. You will find yourself completely in love with life.

- lessons from The Secret