Veronica & the Horse

Published Sunday, January 10, 2010 by Dan Gainsford | E-mail this post

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Been in and out of Puerto Vallarta with Liz over the holidays and haven't had much time to sit down and write. But today is the day that I start the transition process back into work-nomad-mode. It's always hard for me to sit still and just BE in one place but it's also important to balance life on the road with life in general... it's a strange dichotomy and sometimes I feel a bit schizophrenic but that's how it is and that's how it goes.

Last week I spent some quality time with Veronica using a jack to push out her front end; the impact site of our highway horse encounter. Then it was off to the yonke (junk) yard to look for parts. Mexico mechanico processes remind me a lot of life on the Blackfoot Reservation where you make due with what you have, try to avoid new costly parts, and oftentimes fix things in strange but creative/innovative ways.

As I've been fixing V I've been thinking about my encounter with the horse and what it means, if anything. Horse represents power and bay horse is said to represent joy and a lighter approach to life. I've been questioning whether or not I've been to heavy lately and/or if I need to re-examine my relationship with power and how I approach it. There's not too much clarity in this for me since crashing into the ass end of a horse at 60km/hr isn't a sign that you can translate literally... it's more of a... hmm I wonder what that meant... or rather... maybe you should be paying attention right now. Well I am.

Here are some pics of Veronica Post fix-up and the yonke yard :-)

peace,d

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