A Park Ranger

Hi, today i'll talk about a job I would like to have, it is to be Park Ranger!!!

Imagine that! being 24 hours a day sorrounded by nature, working in nature, with nature, for nature,

I would love it, because i'm in love of nature, actually, for me, nature is the most similar thing to what can be named as 'god'. so working as a park ranger for me could be something like being a tibetan monk in a temple, a sacred job. I think it could be somehow lonely, unless you work with a staff of other peopole related to conservation and ecology, so together we could make management plans for the different areas, make environmental education to visitors, especially the kids, go and check the conditions of the plants, the waters, the animals, all the beings of the forest. Ah..that's something i was missing, i would like to be  a park ranger in a forest, it would be different in a desert, I need water and abundance, nevertheless i like deserts too, but not for living long terms there. Other thing i like about this, is that being in nature for a long time makes you conscious of the cycles around you, you are able to see right in front of you the stations passing by, the trees growing, the animals migrating, all that processes we cannot perceive in the city.

Up to now i haven't met anyone who has worked as a park ranger, but i've read lots of articles and experiences of people around the world who has done it. Conditions of work may be rude, but the possibility of being immerse in nature is the great award of taking the risk; after having the experience i'm sure you are not the same, you keep connected to that sacred spirit that nature is.

visiting santiago

I'm santiaguino, and sometimes it is hard to accept, especially when i share with people from province and it gets so evident that this city is a monster, and its people seem to be monsters too. running so fast, with no respect, always busy, never relaxed, angry because of traffic, because of the noise, sad because of pollution, because of the lack of green open spaces, because of this strange "global city rythm".
But hidden in this mess of concrete and traffic there are some places that i woudl recommend to the tourist that wish to take the risk of visiting santiago. like beautiful old neighborhoods like concha y toro, the natural parks around the mountains like Quebrada de Macul, and the classic San Cristobal hill.
Despite the bad things of a big city, santiago is a confluence of many arts and culture circuits that have to be enjoyed by the visitors.
The top five attractions to be visited in santiago are:
1. Cerro San Cristobal, here you will enjoy nice walks around forests, a panoramic view of the city from the top of the hill, or you can make a bike circuit and finish drinking an iced mote con huesillo, or have a picnic in the botanic garden.
2. Parque Forestal, is a very beautiful park along the mapocho river with many old trees, but the major attraction is the museum of fine arts and the museum of contemporary arts, right in the middle of the park, and in sundays, mostly in summer, there is a beautiful street market where you can find the most strange clothes and accesories.
3. Matuc

The perfect day

Yesterday already was, tomorrow is gonna be, it isn’t yet, so the only real thing is the right now, when I understood that, i mean understood deep in mind and hearth, everything became perfect, because if i have just this present moment to be Me and enjoy life without the phantoms of the past and the anxieties of the future i will make it be the best time, always, completely integrated to that experience, wether it is  a bad or good, because I value it for what it teachs to me, always something to add to the book of life, to reach the death with no fears, no regrets, happy for what i lived, gave and received.  So, for me, every day is a perfect day for something, to know someone, to learn something, to cry for something, to smile for something.

I would spend my perfect day with everyone who want to share a bit of life with me, with an old friend, with a new friend, with my cat, with a relative, with an unknown person, have you ever spend a day with someone you never met before?

In this perfect day i would go where the wind sweeps us,  because many times we plan something and it doesn’t  work as we wanted, and we get dissapointed. Maybe this wind will take me and my partner/s to some party in a park, a sunny sunday afternoon in spring, where everyone brings an instrument to make collective music while the sons and daughters of those who have a child, dance freely.  There is some bread and juice to share in the circle. Maybe this wind will te us to something different, to a day of hard studying in the U, and of course it would be perfect,  a moment to bring out all of my willpower and at the end of the day feel victorious.

Anyway, What I always try to do, (try! Because not always works) is to live every day as if it was the perfect day you wonder, and thus, live the life you would like to live. As doing this exercise many things I used to think that weren’t helping  dissappeared, and the “wind” became the guide, the present moment became conscious, and  after that, synchrony makes its work, and is perfect!

Hugs from the "here and now"