*Jeff donated a GoPro3 to fogata films
2013 to my Beloved Friends and Family
I write on this second day of 2013 from five miles high looking down on the coast of Central America en route to Panama flying from Cancun in Quintana Roo in the Yucatan after camping for days in the jungle. The sun is setting a brilliant crimson tinged with orange and blues of infinite shades ranging from powder blue to cobalt soon to reveal Jupiter rising in the East before the Moon. We are in the dawn of a new era. The Age of Aquarius so eloquently experienced at Woodstock and put into song in the Broadway musical "Hair" and now again reiterated with the culmination and re-beginning of another 26,000 year cycle of the Mayan calendar.
excerpts from Jeff's sublime prose:
While wandering the Rainbow Gathering I also met an extraordinary American couple, Loni and Gregory who are filming a remote Shuar Indian tribe in the Ecuadorian Puyo who are holding out against the oil companies and governments determined to continue their indigenous nonpetroleum, non-commercial existence in the Amazon. They with almost no money had come to Rainbow by land from Ecuador, then ridden on a small cargo boat through the Panamanian San Blas Island chain to reach Palenque where their encampment on the top of a ridge was a refuge and kitchen open to all. I hope to connect them with Simon Romero, the Latin American Bureau Chief of the New York Times to help get their inspiration the Shuar elected tribal champion, Luis Kurash, coverage so the oil companies and their minions will know the world is watching. They were kind enough to thank me for my suggestion that their film also respectfully document those members of the tribe who want the oil exploration to breach their ancestral villages because they have adopted modern ways and seek to be part of the global commercial world. That way viewers will be able to witness all the tribal members' viewpoints as these tiny bands and last vestiges of pre-colonial, pre-European, pre-Globalization Amazonia Indigenous tribes continue to exist in fragile tenderness and at great personal risk on the fringes of the jungle now pierced by roads at this moment in time at the beginning of the 21st century when no one can truly hide.
2013 to my Beloved Friends and Family
I write on this second day of 2013 from five miles high looking down on the coast of Central America en route to Panama flying from Cancun in Quintana Roo in the Yucatan after camping for days in the jungle. The sun is setting a brilliant crimson tinged with orange and blues of infinite shades ranging from powder blue to cobalt soon to reveal Jupiter rising in the East before the Moon. We are in the dawn of a new era. The Age of Aquarius so eloquently experienced at Woodstock and put into song in the Broadway musical "Hair" and now again reiterated with the culmination and re-beginning of another 26,000 year cycle of the Mayan calendar.
excerpts from Jeff's sublime prose:
While wandering the Rainbow Gathering I also met an extraordinary American couple, Loni and Gregory who are filming a remote Shuar Indian tribe in the Ecuadorian Puyo who are holding out against the oil companies and governments determined to continue their indigenous nonpetroleum, non-commercial existence in the Amazon. They with almost no money had come to Rainbow by land from Ecuador, then ridden on a small cargo boat through the Panamanian San Blas Island chain to reach Palenque where their encampment on the top of a ridge was a refuge and kitchen open to all. I hope to connect them with Simon Romero, the Latin American Bureau Chief of the New York Times to help get their inspiration the Shuar elected tribal champion, Luis Kurash, coverage so the oil companies and their minions will know the world is watching. They were kind enough to thank me for my suggestion that their film also respectfully document those members of the tribe who want the oil exploration to breach their ancestral villages because they have adopted modern ways and seek to be part of the global commercial world. That way viewers will be able to witness all the tribal members' viewpoints as these tiny bands and last vestiges of pre-colonial, pre-European, pre-Globalization Amazonia Indigenous tribes continue to exist in fragile tenderness and at great personal risk on the fringes of the jungle now pierced by roads at this moment in time at the beginning of the 21st century when no one can truly hide.
As each of us feels a connection to Spirit or Ha Shem or God as we may choose to call the eternal animating force, may we also feel ourselves at home and safe with each breath we take, comforted by expressing our selves and sharing each of our unique illimitable cosmic spirits with each other and this marvelous miraculous world as we spin through the cosmos on this spinning planet around a sun orbiting a galaxy transcending time and space. Ah Ho. May each of you follow your own heart. May each of you experience the fullness and gratitude of this gift of life that Adonai Elohenu, the divine and eternal creator has given us to enjoy and share. Blessings to all. Much love, Beni Jeff
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