Posted in Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged day of the dead, distortion, pat bean, postaday, san antonio, weekly photo challenge on March 3, 2012| 8 Comments »
“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Body Distortion: Day of the Dead, San Antonio, Texas -- Photo by Pat Bean
Bean’s Pat: Slowing Down to Save Time http://tinyurl.com/6wzf65g A lesson I would do well to take to heart.
Posted in Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, tagged hemisfair, olmecs, pat bean, postaday2011, san antonio, weekly photo challenge: faces on September 18, 2011| 4 Comments »
“I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
Olmec head, HemisFair Park, San Antonio, Texas. It's a really big face. -- Photo by Pat Bean
The discovery of the Olmec Heads, like this one that was put on display at the 1968 HemisFair held in San Antonio, which I was privileged to attend, provided archaeologist with many mysteries to solve. It was finally decided that the heads were created by the mother culture of the Mayans. it’s a face from the past.
“A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.” Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
Pat Bean is a writer, avid birder, hiker and passionate nature observer with wanderlust in her soul. She spent nine years living and traveling in a small RV. She now lives in Tucson with Scamp, a rescue who was supposed to be a Schnauzer mix but turned out to be a Siberian Husky-Shih Tzu mix who is as stubborn as his owner, her granddaughter says. She was also a journalist for 37 years, and can be reached at patbean@msn.com
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