and it makes me wonder.

Sometimes I wonder if anything is certain, concrete anymore.

Is there still right and wrong?

Good and bad? Truth and lies?

Is everything still either black and white?

Or is everything somewhere in the middle, in gray?

Is everything negotiable, flexible, left to our interpretation?

Sometimes we're forced to bend the truth, transform it, because we're faced with things that we did not choose to happen.

And sometimes they simply catch up to us.

And it makes me wonder if this is right.

If anything is ethical in our day.

If what we feel is right really is.

And if we are forced to do what we think is wrong, should we do it anyway or reap the consequences that come with refusal to go along with the way life pushes us?

But of one thing I am certain: that truth is still absolute.

It may, in fact be the only sure thing left.

Even when that truth is harsh, unforgiving, painful to imagine, even when truth is more hurtful than any lie.

All photos from here.

What do you think, my dears? Is there really good and bad, right and wrong? Or is it just mixed together and upon us to decide for ourselves? Does the end really justify the means?

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En familia : Parte II

Continuando con nuestro fin de año familiar, también fuimos de paseo al shopping (aunque se hizo unas compritas por ahí .... siempre hay la tentación) y lo terminamos tomando unos ricos heladitos que a todos nos cayeron bien puesto que hacía mucho calor. Mateo? feliz con el paseo y por supuesto con la golosina ya que a partir de Diciembre se hizo adicto a los dulces ( sí, tenían razón quienes me decían que con el tiempo le gustarían). Mírenlo no más...

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life.

It is not that we should try for flawlessness, but that we try.  

Always forgive, because the human spirit is easily splintered by grudges.  

Speak tenderly, lovingly.  

Allow the fluency of routine be interrupted, at times, by impulsiveness.  

And pray, never clip that wings of hope, for with them, you can rise above despair.

Life is far less in memory, and spirit, though if we do not stop and savor in all that is tender and warmhearted: The intimacy of a kiss, of breathless desire.  

The winded laughter of friends, echoing into long emptied coffee mugs and lamp lit rooms.  

The vivacious feeling, of an affectionate embrace.  

The stretching smile of unadulterated delight, from someone dear, someone cherished.

We live, and this world we live in is satiated in splendor, in daily miracles of magnificence, only waiting for one to lift the blinders of materialism and observe: The silken yawn of dawn and dusk.  

Sun beams fragmented, like a kaleidoscope, by leafy tree tops.  

The scent of the earth after a summer rain.  

The sea, with all its elegance and vigor.  

Misty mornings, blades of grass crowned with dew.  

Fireflies winking in the melodious twilight of summer.  

The serenity of earth laden with the pale powder of snow.  

The tiny pin-pricks of stars in the ebony mantle of sky.

And then there is, the sacred rhythms of your heartbeat, the delicate whistle of your own breath.  

The intricate, mystifying ways in which the human body survives.  

That we are here, that we are alive...

Pictures from here

Words from the beautiful Susanna-Cole

I have been tagged by the adorable Ella to write 6 things that make me happy:

1. Getting compliments

2. Laughing with friends

3. Pleasant surprises

4. Dreaming

5. People watching

6. Finding someone who knows someone who has a friend who is either related or friends with you. Ex: "Oh I didn't know you know Sam who knows Charlie who knows Lizzie who's friends with Sara!  Sara's my cousin!" (isn't our world an English village?)

I tag:

Andrea

End of March

Michelle

Nicola

Nature Graffiti 

Hannah-Zoe

Also, I just added those ugly looking google ads to my blog.  I finally thought I'd give it a try since apparently you can rake it a good amount of money.  So if you, my dears would be ever so kind to click on them every once and a while, it would help me out so much!  Thanks, you guys!

xoxo,

Micaela

En familia : Parte I

Las festividades de fin de año las compartimos en familia y esta vez fueron mucho más especiales pues vino desde Quito la tía Gris, mi prima Danielita y mi primo Felipe Andrés, quien estudia en el TEC de Monterrey en Toluca, México. Así que al día siguiente de su llegada disfrutamos de un almuerzo familiar en casa y aprovechamos para captar algunos momentos. Mateito, todo lindo se encariñó con su primo Andrés, le pedía que lo cargue, le daba besitos, le bailaba y hasta se sentaba con él cuando chateaba con su novia Majo (una linda mexicana a la cual todos queremos mucho) para saludarla con su manito a través de la cámara.

2009 is now upon us.

"What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself."

~Anonymous

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."

~Confucius

"One day you will ask me what I love more, you or my life, and when I say my life you will walk away from me without knowing that you are my life."

~Anonymous

"I want you to run your fingers through my hair, slowly and softly, just enough to give me those chills I long for."

~The only journey is the journey within

"I want to fall in love. The hard, take-you-by-surprise, soul-changing kind of love."

~Wears Heart on Sleeve

"And the worst feeling in the world really is know that you feel something you shouldn't, for someone you should have never met."

~Wears Heart on Sleeve

"Love me then leave me, don't leave me in love. And I really need you to stay for a while, just for a while."

~Love me then leave me by Laura Marling

"I have realized that I live in this little world in my head and no one around me knows about it or about me. But I continue to exist as an entity they believe they understand. And it's all one gigantic farce. And that is why I always feel so alone."

~Anonymous

"I think I'm afraid to be happy because whenever I get too happy, something bad always happens."

~Charlie Brown

"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when you turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."

~Douglas Coupland, Life After God

"I want to believe in it all again-in art, fate, and love. And I want to believe that I've made the right choice and that I'm on the right path and there's still time to fix the mistakes that I've made. And I guess I want hope."

~One Tree Hill

"Meet me beneath the trees, I'll wear my favorite dress and you can do that thing with your hands you always do-grab mine, and touch my heart-you know..."

~Anonymous

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh," he whispered.

"Yes, Piglet?"

"Nothing." Said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."

"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it."

~Swedish Proverb

Photos taken from random blogs I love.

Isn't it hard to believe that 2009 is now upon us? What are YOUR new year's resolutions? Post them in a comment and I'm sure I'll have lots of fun reading them. Now you're probably wondering what my resolutions are. I don't mean this to sound as if I don't have any spirit, but I don't believe in resolutions. I hope that doesn't make me sound totally self-absorbed.

xoxo,

Micaela

Mucha felicidad en el Nuevo Año!

Que la paz secuestre su vida, el amor inunde su alma y la felicidad refleje en su cara. De corazón les deseamos todo lo bueno que se merecen. Feliz Año Nuevo, queridos amigos!!