El BRUJO™

Good wood - I hate to steal quotes but the guys at @blessthisstuff-blog have done such a good job:

Located on the remote Isla Holbox in Mexico, the Punta Caliza boutique hotel is an intimate sanctuary in an emerging beach destination within the Yum Balam nature reserve. Designed by architecture firm Estudio Macias Peredo, the spectacular hotel has an incredibly unique design that features eco-chic minimalism with clean lines, earthy wood tones, and white accents.

Lately when I have been looking into the mirror, I have to stare extra hard because the face I see looking back at me seems so strange and unfamiliar. It’s me, and I’m sure it’s me, but something about it seems to have changed drastically, and I can’t tell what. And I can’t tell if I am just resistant to that change, or if I really don’t like it. 

When I’ve been pulling out my phone to take a selfie, I am constantly disappointed with how my face looks. Something about the picture just doesn’t look right, and I find myself deleting each one. I don’t like the way it looks. I don’t like the way any of them look. 

I mean, it’s still me, it’s got to still be me, but something is so drastically different now. Something so jarring has happened that I can’t look at myself the same way that I used to. I don’t recognize that face in the mirror at first glace, and I find myself just staring to make sure it’s all there. 

Maybe I’ve lost “Sight” of who I am and I just need to find me again. Maybe something has changed forever and this is the new face that I’m going to be staring at for a while. As usual I am looking for answers that are not so easy to come by. 

I would just like to get back to a time when I liked the person I saw in the mirror, and I strove to make sure he was smiling back at me. Right now I’m still trying to figure out who that person is. 

Mulan sits in the rain underneath the statue of the Great Stone Dragon (who is looking down on her), and suddenly decides on a course of action. She looks up, resolved to go to war in place of her father and runs into the temple where she lights the match and beseeches protection for her family. The stone she bows to and that we see lit up by lightening strike is that of the dragon, whose eyes are looking out after her, lit from underneath by the candles. The scene transitions to the divider in the house that also has an icon of the dragon. where she replaces her hair comb with the summons. Then we see the sword hilt, also the dragon, and as she draws the blade we see her face replace it. She ties up her hair, then as she opens the wardrobe, the handles are also the dragon. After donning the armor, the view shows her facing us, with the hilt of the sword (the face of the dragon) in front of her face, where she then turns the sword to reveal her face, and sheaths it. As she leaves, we flash back to the temple, and the eyes of the dragon flash as her grandmother wakes up.