Alert

alert
Its nice to listen to my ipod as Genee plods along.  All i have to do is look at her ears.  She watchs and seems to know everything before i do and I have slowly learned the nuances of each position.  She is alert to to all her surroundings including the gringo riding on her back.  She can even smell water, amazing creatures.   Listening to my favorite Snatum kur tunes imagining Rajni moving to the music while i take in the countryside is an awesome experience.  i watch as Glens hat bob's left and right moving with the swing of his horse as he disappears over the hill in front of me.I see the many fields of onion strawberrys asperegus, corn and many more and and along the roads are the farmers carrying their large hoes that they use to tediously cultivate them, also are the brightly dressed women with amazing loads balanced on their heads . This I think should be the symbols of Guatamala.  The saddle i bought used is made from a single piece of wood and it is old and and cracked, the horn is worn from many a brown guatamalan hand and now my own white Welsh.  Once as we get closer to a small ville or Aldea I hear music familiar tome it is a tent revival meeting and the sound is acapella singing the tune of  "How Great Thou Art" in some indian tongue.  I know it because it brings back many rich memories as a child growing up in the Church of Christ were they sing only Acapella and that song a lot.  I hum it and sing the English words as we pass.   There are numerous churchs in even the smallest of Aldeas and it is every kind of Denomination you could imagine.  They far outnumber the tienda's and definitely the schools.  This is truly ripe ground for the proseletizing of hungry souls for spiritual food.  It is probably a huge deal for religious minded  zealots who wish to chalk up  a few convert points.  I wonder however if this is doing any good really.  When you preach love on one hand of yourself, your neighbor and some almighty diety and on the other hand preach fear of damnation, Hell, and Judgement the balance of consciousness is at or near Zero and the level of consciousness never rises.  Maybe thats why it has taken us soooo long to evolve.   Genee's ears take it in.  I wonder what is going on in her head.
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