Quick "I can´t" in the ass

"We cannot blame our failure to live our dreams on a lack of
time. We must learn to make the time in our days to live
those dreams."

I´m quite fond of quotes and I thought this one to be of utmost value, (ahem) especially in my life.
My blog has quite the dreamy title theme, but in reality it is all to keep in mind what I should be doing and not wasting effort in vain pursuits. One of my dreams -of the type you tend to wish would just fall on your lap as a gift from the heavens- is to play the guitar. To get there I have to learn, and let´s say I´m close to...zero.
I´ve attempted to learn such a skill and art, but I´m so clumsy and slow with my fingers that I nearly feel as if playing any song is beyond me. I can get over that, I tell myself, just gotta practice. So that leaves me with my ongoing excuse: time.
Shove that quote in my face!
I´m sure that if I make a commitment to give it a serious try, I´ll be able to play a song by my next birthday. That´s the long term goal. The first goal is to have my dad give me the first lesson tomorrow! -even if I just do it for half an hour. Lord help me. I hate you Lethargy! It´ll be such fun to shove that same quote in your face till you choke.
Now I am accountable with the readers and Internet surfers that cross this lil dot in the vast expanse of the oceanic web, I hope it´s a worthwhile dot at that.
By the way I was real happy for Danny, an ol´friend of mine who has finally put a band together. He´s the drummer, if you were wondering and well, even though I failed to show any enthusiasm when he told me -I was being a selfish wreck, thinking about God-knows what- I´ll keep him in mind concerning my drive to learn to play the guitar, just for the fact that he has held on to such a dream and done something about it!
I owe an apology to my 7th grade friends that never stopped talking about making a band, while I laughed at them. By now they´ve sent me the pictures of their first performance at their school.

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
-Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

Time goes by

I had invaded Sandy´s place Saturday night, and after watching a movie that kept reminding me of the matrix and looking through some pictures, we tip toed into her parents room to take over the sleeping computer. Searching for a particular photo, we encountered a whole world of pics young and old, particularly since the time our family got here, in April 2007.
Her dad had such an array of pictures! We did come up with a few real random ones, like a simple ornament we always see around the house and such things, but there was also beautiful displays of clouds and sunsets.
I hadn't stopped to think how people around you do change in a year or so, quite enlightening. Time has passed. And we had the funnest time laughing our heads off. Perhaps we were simply in a foolish mood, like we can tend to be under such circumstances, but we laughed and giggled and made faces of horror
Here are a few of those pictures that I stole from Solomon´s computer. And if you happen to be reading this uncle, I wanna thank you for holding that splendid camera of yours so faithfully.

Katie and Nina at the Horses -we named the place, you see it´s always easier to remember things after stating the obvious.

It was a whole little adventure. I also speak for myself. :P

Singing "Las Mañanitas"

Kerenina´s tenth birthday

The prayer for Nina´s new year (I can´t believe him...)

A soccer game between Mexico and Panama. My dad wouldn´t miss it for the world, and french-canadian uncle Solomon took becoming one a step further. I´m not sure who turned out to be the winner after all.

Dancing to a hip hop song we all liked :)

Gorgeous Morelian sky

Marie Lauren and Nina. The latter is smiling that peculiar & pretty smile known to be my mom´s.

The contents of the box: Cloudy and Sunny

Drawing

Dancing.
p.s. I am also dancing, why it looks like I´m banging the garage door?, I have no idea.


Adrian looks a bit stressed

So cute!
But if you´ve ever seen them together you know that they´re like a cat and a dog that´ll keep playing together nevertheless.

Chaos around the piñata

Alex´s birthday (That cake was adorable)

Ashely looking like a precious moments baby

"Ayleene the fatso" with mommy

Lene nowadays, with Teresa and her very red hair.

They´re best friends!

A basketball game and a matching coincidence.

Adrian being foolish and caught in the act.

Benny-boy and, oh I can see my old and faithful watch!

There aren´t many living Christmas trees, you know.

Susie at the dawn of the year.

September 2008, the mountains had beautiful scenery that month...

Volunteers to paint the park

What get-out is all about these days.

-Could we look like guys wearing guy-clothes? Most girls try this without succeeding, I can´t believe we´re included in that category.

Participating in the puppet show as angels. Of course we survived such a feat! (unheard sigh of relief)

Kinda how we look now, not like we´ve changed an awful lot anyhow...uhhh, have we?
New year´s Eve, and Nina trys to steal our blueberry drink!

Sunset with the city below,
don´t forget to come back tomorrow dear Sun -I should stop worrying, he always does.

By Francis William Bourdillon (1852 – 1921)

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

I wish

I wish I had wings to fly away,
instead I have two legs that make me take one step at a time.
I wish I had a machine that produces love gifts,
instead I have to make a constant effort to give.
I wish I knew the future,
instead I can only live the present.
I wish there were more courageous and selfless humans,
instead I have plenty of room to be a hero.
I wish there were an eternal summer,
instead I must keep changing with the times.
I wish the wasn't uncertainty, worry and doubt,
instead I must learn to overcome them.
I wish there wasn't any middle ground,
instead I have to position myself and fight out of conviction.
I wish there was a smooth highway,
instead a rocky climb awaits me.
In the end all I really wish for is a heart that keeps beating
till my time comes to give this old world an eternal farewell.

Belated Birthday Ali!

I wish the very best to a champion, a friend, a mentor, a mom, a courageous fighter, a wife and a remarkable woman.
Love you Ali, a whole lot!
I know you´ll keep being beautiful and strong, you´ll keep making delicious cakes, painting lovely and lively creations, caring and loving your kiddos and keep making additions to your already adorable family, you´ll probably keep teasing me with Jesse (sigh), but most important of it all, you´ll keep loving Jesus and giving your all to Him. You´re just that kind of person.

Happy Birthday!

Can´t you already imagine what a fun and super cool person Nathan is as well? ;)

"More strong than time" by Victor Hugo

Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet,
Since I my pallid face between your hands have laid,
Since I have known your soul, and all the bloom of it,
And all the perfume rare, now buried in the shade;

Since it was given to me to hear on happy while,
The words wherein your heart spoke all its mysteries,
Since I have seen you weep, and since I have seen you smile,
Your lips upon my lips, and your eyes upon my eyes;

Since I have known above my forehead glance and gleam,
A ray, a single ray, of your star, veiled always,
Since I have felt the fall, upon my lifetime's stream,
Of one rose petal plucked from the roses of your days;

I now am bold to say to the swift changing hours,
Pass, pass upon your way, for I grow never old,
Fleet to the dark abysm with all your fading flowers,
One rose that none may pluck, within my heart I hold.

p.s. I assure those of you that are too greatly affected by a man´s looks, that his heart was youthful throughout his life, only until the last few years when all he had was a an ailing daughter considered to be insane. Dear french author if it weren´t for thee I would not be so encouraged to study the XIX century´s histoty.
I love people with an imagination.

Back from the beach

My beachy vacations that covered five days at fine hotel installations, yummy chips, caring people, much cherished sunshine, sharing the bay with pelicans and swimming amongst insignificant fishes in great quantities, were ended yesterday´s afternoon as we headed back home in our little caravan of two vans.
I just finished reading, rather listening, to a mind-gripping and fascinating book, which I will leave to your imagination as to the title. Allow me to tell you that I also had a beautiful and endearing time with my Love. The name of this One person will be left to your imagination as well.
As I was saying, my vacations in Ixtapa are over and I was surprised to feel as if they had taken a whole lot longer.
Solomon and Natalia´s family were the ones whom we went with, or more like, we went with them.
I introduce to you now a little sketchbook of what we did.

Susie, Kerenina and Adrian laughing in the waves.

A loving coconut for three

My dream is to touch an Indian beach, really. That is after somehow surviving in Russia enough time to be of service.

The Queretaro state soccer team looking at Marie Lauren with darling smiles. :D

We gave Adrian a fish´s tale

One unique and beautiful sunset

My parents enjoying the beach atmosphere

A volleyball game

Sandy and I

Guess who won the chicken fight.