In the meantime, in between time

Still hanging in the frozen north, counting the days until my return.  It is interesting to jump between realities.  In terms of time spent, I am in Oaxaca 90 percent of the time and somewhere else for the remainder.  As I have said before, I now feel like an alien in both worlds. In Oaxaca it is too painfully obvious, but here.... I guess it is all in my mind.  Not altogether a bad thing.

It all does make me think.  I have been using a form of the same tool in both places.  In San Sebastian Etla, I use the bareta to dig holes in the cement like earth to plant trees.  Here, I use almost the same tool to chip away slabs of ice.  The whole thing in a nutshell.

The day I left Oaxaca, the 15th, there were political protests.  Now that I am back in the belly of the beast, I see that things are astir in many places, the US, Mid East.  Having fast internet and cable sure makes a difference.  Not so much in terms of quality, but quantity does make a big difference when one has to sift through piles of daily bullshit to glean nuggets of the truth. 

I now realize that even though I was following the events in Egypt and the Middle East on the internet, there is nothing like seeing it as it it happening.  Clearly, Facebook and Twitter are being used to mobilize people, so maybe there is hope after all.  Start the revolution without me.  I have to dust off my black leathers and get the bike out of the shop, but I'll catch up. 

I may be slow and behind the times, but still I am ahead in so many ways considering that only a small percentage of the world is online and obviously that is how the whole thing is going to go down.  The old folks are and will remain clueless.  That's the way it often goes.

Oaxaqueños are and have always been politically active, taking to the streets.  Now, it is Wisconsin and Ohio.  Folks in El Norte are gettin' riled up.  What's next?

The Revolution will not be televised.... it will be twittered..... and I don't twitter. I don't even have a damn cell phone.  As my father-in-law used to say, "I used to be a Greek God, but now I'm just a Greek".... to which we used to add.... "I used to be a geek and now I'm a Geek God."
Hence, photos of anatomically more complete mannequins.