That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do

Death, life, the material and the spirit, and the effects of time ...

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A decade has passed. Time keeps ticking. I have noticed the decadence in life hidden by societies measure of "progress". Sometimes we look at something for so long and we think we know it... and that we have conquered it, but the reality is that we have never fully known it... or owned it... and our perception of it changes because of what's in our heart at the moment. You cannot turn back or undo the effects of time... but realizing the slow decay of a life that is yours is the only way towards self actualization and living in the now. We all think we are living... but many of us are just slowly dying.

This is one of my all time favorite paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago. It is dark and mysterious in all of it's 8 feet height of fine detail. Ivan Albright, a Chicagoan, took years to complete a painting and it shows in the details. The Door took him 10 years to complete. We think 10 years in our life is such a long time, but it really is not. 10 years of sweat, love, sacrifice, and life was dedicated in the meticulously executed details of the Door. I used to stare at this painting and try to look at every single detail of it. I could see 10 years of life in this painting.

Time... time... time... the most precious thing we have. Time is relative.... time is relative. I love the title of one of his other paintings, one that is owned by the Art Institute but I have never seen it on display - Poor Room - There is No Time, No End, No Today, No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, Only the Forever, and Forever and Forever Without End (The Window).

by Ivan Albright
That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)
1931-41
Oil on canvas; 97 x 36 in.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Mary and Leigh Block Charitable Fund (1955)

Detail of painting. Photos by neoplatonistking on Flickr

Voice of a Mountain

Voice of a Mountain, originally uploaded by MataMedia.

I took Chloe to see this documentary film at a really cool cafe Star Lounge in Chicago on Friday July 18, 2008. It is a well done documentary on the struggles of Guatamalan people after 36 years of civil war. I admire my friends for their dedicated work for the Guatamalan people and working class people all over the world. Please support their fair trade goods store Maya Essence in Chicago.

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"Voice of a Mountain" directed by Tyler Rumph and Michael Field The world premiere public screening of A documentary about life after the 36 year civil war in Guatemala. ..:: El estreno del documental "Voz de una Montaña" que trata sobre la vida despues de los 36 años de guerra civil en Guatemala. ::....

Also, we will be featuring a short film by Documigrante
Tambien presentaremos un corto-metraje --- Willy Barreno
www.voiceofamountain.com
Presented by: Casa Guatemala, M.I.G.U.A., and Maya Essence

Voice of a Mountain is a documentary of the lives of rural Guatemalan coffee farmers who took up arms against their government in a civil war that lasted 36 years. This film explores Guatemala's dark history from the perspective of those who saw armed revolution as their only hope for change in a nation suppressed by years of poverty and dictatorship. Ex-combatants talk about the reality of the country that led to their involvement in the war, and the response of genocide from the Guatemalan government against it's people.

El documental "La voz de la montaña" es la historia de la vida de unos campesinos cafetaleros que tomaron las armas en contra el gobierno en una guerra civil que duro 36 años. Este documental explora la oscura historia desde la pespectiva de aquellos que vieron la revolución armada como la unica esperanza para erradicar la pobreza bajo años de dictaduras militares. Los excombatientes hablan sobre la cruda realidad de un país y que los llevó a involucrarse en la guerra , y la respuesta del genocidio de parte del gobierno de Guatemala en contra de su gente.

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