Pictures de la Mancha

The "Don" says, no way are we going up that road.
Well he doesn't know what a great running trail it is.

A friend in Tokyo sent me this picture yesterday, along with some others. I had sent my pictures posted on the blog yesterday to him. The picture with the balloons is about a month old. The one with the dirt road and signs is probably out of place among all the other pictures of the last two days but o well, I figured it was a great running trail and I liked the brown color in the fields. Fall is my favorite time of the year in New Mexico. It is the most predictable, if that ever really can be said about the weather, but the weather is just great. Yesterday I read an interesting blog about a politician named Cervantes. The blog author, a brilliant young man, by the way, thought that perhaps this politician was running because he actually had a sense of empathy. It was one of several possible reasons? Faced with nature and literature, politics is sure less interesting. I suppose it is important but I have to confess that this new politician found in Southern New Mexico made me think of the more interesting Cevantes writings and of "Don Quixote de la Mancha". (you see both the writer and this new politican have the same name sort of so guess who has my interest?) You may recall the story? A country gentleman who has read so many stories of chivalry and adventure, and perhaps looked at the mountains one to many times, descends into fantasy and becomes convinced he is a knight. So why take a serious look at politicians and drift off into Don Quixote? Well in the book, which for some reason is considered one of the best in literature, or at least in the second half of the book which is serious and philosophical, it talks about the theme of deception. There you go................. This indeed fits the mood of a modern day "blog rant" about politicians. Of course then the book ended in disillusionment, with the star sort of returning to sanity. Wish it were true with politics.

Quotes from Don Quixote

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Those who have been told the truth should not be taken for those who have been scorned."

Wish it were true with politics.

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And so, to sum it all up, I perceive everything I say as absolutely true, and deficient in nothing whatever, and paint it all in my mind exactly as I want it to be.

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Jokers find that they're the ones being fooled.

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that wouldn't be so bad, if I have to cure the world's problems by being everyones scapegoat

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I am in my right mind, now, clear-headed and free of the murky darkness of ignorance, brought upon me by my continual, bitter reading of those abominable books of chivalry

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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you