The Quiet Work Behind an Intelligent Machine: Learning to Build Technology for People

There is something fascinating about a machine that appears to understand us.

We type a question, and an answer arrives in seconds. We describe a problem, and a system suggests a solution. We give software a task that once required patience and repetition, and it completes the work before we have finished thinking about it.

It is tempting to call this progress and leave the discussion there.

But I have become increasingly interested in a question that comes after the excitement: what happens when the impressive part of technology is no longer the most important part?

An intelligent system may be technically remarkable and still misunderstand the person using it. It may produce fluent answers without sufficient understanding, offer convenience without clarity, or solve a problem while creating another that nobody anticipated.

For me, this is where the more meaningful work of innovation begins. Not at the moment a machine demonstrates what it can do, but at the moment we begin asking what it should do, whom it should serve, and what responsibilities come with building it.

As a student exploring artificial intelligence and digital systems in Uzbekistan, I see technology not only as a collection of tools to learn, but also as a set of decisions that can shape people’s everyday experiences. That perspective has changed the way I think about the future of intelligent machines.

The Difference Between Making Something Work and Making It Matter

When we discuss innovation, we often celebrate what can be measured easily: processing speed, accuracy, efficiency, the number of automated tasks, or the amount of time saved.

These measures matter. A system that cannot perform its intended function has little practical value.

Yet technical performance is only one part of usefulness.

Imagine a digital assistant that answers questions quickly but leaves a beginner more confused than before. Imagine an accounting tool that processes records efficiently but provides no understandable explanation when an unusual transaction appears. Imagine an online service that works perfectly for an experienced user but becomes an obstacle for someone unfamiliar with digital systems.

Each tool might satisfy a technical specification. None necessarily succeeds as a human experience.

This distinction is easy to overlook because the machine’s performance is visible, while the user’s frustration is often hidden.

A developer can demonstrate that a feature works. It is harder to demonstrate that a person feels confident using it, understands its limitations, or knows what to do when it fails.

That difficulty does not make these questions less important. It makes them worth asking earlier.

I have come to think of good technology as something that should gradually make itself less intimidating. Its purpose is not to remind people how sophisticated the system is. Its purpose is to help them accomplish something that matters to them.

The best interface may be the one that does not demand attention. The best explanation may be the one that makes a difficult idea feel manageable. And the best automation may be the kind that gives a person more time to exercise judgment rather than asking them to surrender it.

What an Intelligent Assistant Owes Its User

Building or exploring AI assistants makes one issue particularly clear: the way a system responds is part of what it does.

Two assistants may have access to similar capabilities and provide similarly accurate information yet leave very different impressions. One may explain patiently. Another may be concise and direct. A third may sound confident even when the question deserves caution.

These differences are not merely decorative. They influence whether users feel comfortable asking questions, whether they recognize uncertainty, and whether they understand what the system can reasonably provide.

Friendliness alone is not enough. An assistant can sound warm and still be misleading. Directness can be useful, but it can also become needlessly dismissive. Confidence can reassure users, but misplaced confidence can encourage them to trust an answer that should be checked.

The real challenge is to make communication fit the situation without losing honesty.

A useful assistant should be able to explain a simple task without unnecessary complexity, acknowledge uncertainty when appropriate, and recognize when a question requires human expertise or independent verification. It should not pretend that every problem has a clear answer simply because producing an answer is easy.

This is one reason I believe that designing AI involves more than selecting a model or writing a set of instructions. It requires thinking about the relationship between a system and the person who depends on it.

What expectations does its language create? Does it help users understand, or merely persuade them? Does it encourage independent thought, or quietly replace it?

These questions become especially important when people begin using AI for education, financial decisions, professional work, and other situations where mistakes have consequences.

An intelligent assistant should not be judged only by how convincing it sounds. It should also be judged by how responsibly it communicates.

The Human Being Behind the Interface

Technology is frequently designed around an imagined user: someone with a reliable internet connection, sufficient technical knowledge, clear instructions, and enough time to learn a new system.

Real people do not always fit that description.

Some users are encountering a service for the first time. Others may be working in a second language, using an older device, or trying to understand an unfamiliar process while managing several other responsibilities.

A system that assumes everyone already knows what to do can turn a small learning curve into a barrier.

This matters in countries experiencing digital change, including Uzbekistan. The possibilities offered by online services, digital financial tools, and artificial intelligence are significant. But the value of those possibilities depends partly on whether people can access them, understand them, and use them with confidence.

Modernization should not be measured exclusively by how many services become digital. We should also ask whether those services become easier to navigate, whether their instructions make sense, and whether people can obtain help when something goes wrong.

Consider a student learning a new technical skill. A useful educational assistant does not simply deliver the correct answer. It helps the student understand why the answer works. It offers another explanation when the first one fails. Ideally, it leaves the student better equipped to solve the next problem independently.

The same principle applies beyond education.

A digital accounting system should help people understand their records, not merely move numbers from one screen to another. A public service should make its requirements clear, not force citizens to guess which step comes next. An AI assistant should help someone think more effectively, not make them feel that thinking is no longer necessary.

Human-centered design begins with the recognition that people are not obstacles to efficiency. They are the reason efficiency matters.

The Limits We Must Be Willing to Admit

There is another responsibility that accompanies intelligent technology: knowing what it cannot reliably do.

Modern AI systems can produce useful explanations, identify patterns, summarize information, and support creative work. They can also generate incorrect claims, miss important context, and present uncertain conclusions in language that sounds authoritative.

The danger is not simply that a machine can make a mistake. People make mistakes, too.

The deeper problem arises when the appearance of intelligence causes us to stop checking.

If an automated tool produces a financial figure, a person may need to verify the underlying records. If an AI assistant explains a technical concept, a learner may need to consult reliable documentation. If a system recommends a consequential action, the person using it should understand the basis and limitations of that recommendation.

Responsibility cannot disappear into the software.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile, published in 2024, offers practical guidance for organizations seeking to identify and manage risks associated with generative AI. Its existence reflects an important principle: trustworthiness requires deliberate attention throughout the development and use of a system, not merely confidence in its capabilities.

UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence similarly emphasizes human dignity, fairness, transparency, and human oversight.

These principles are not reasons to reject innovation. They are reminders that powerful tools need thoughtful boundaries.

A mature approach to AI does not demand perfection from every system. It demands honesty about limitations, sensible safeguards, and a clear understanding of who remains responsible for the decisions that matter.

Sometimes the most intelligent response a system can provide is an explanation of what it does not know.

Learning to Build with Care

For students entering technology-related fields, the responsibility to think beyond functionality begins early.

It is natural to focus first on making something work. A program runs. A feature responds. An error disappears. These moments are satisfying because they turn an abstract idea into something tangible.

But the next questions are just as valuable.

Can another person understand what I have built? What happens when the input is unexpected? Have I considered how the system could be misunderstood? Does it protect information that should remain private? If it gives an incorrect answer, will the user have a reasonable way to recognize and correct the mistake?

These questions expand the meaning of technical skill.

They encourage developers to consider accessibility alongside performance, clarity alongside complexity, and accountability alongside automation. They also reveal why collaboration matters. The person who understands the code may not be the person who best understands the user’s circumstances.

A more useful approach brings those perspectives together.

In my own learning, I increasingly see the value of treating every technical project as an opportunity to understand both a problem and the people affected by its solution. The objective is not simply to produce something that demonstrates capability. It is to create something whose usefulness can be explained in terms that matter beyond the developer’s screen.

That is a more demanding standard, but it is also a more meaningful one.

A project does not become valuable merely because it uses artificial intelligence. It becomes valuable when its capabilities are connected to a genuine need, its limitations are understood, and its design respects the people who use it.

Progress That Leaves People More Capable

We are entering a period in which intelligent tools will become increasingly familiar. Tasks that once required specialized knowledge may become easier to begin. New forms of creativity and collaboration will emerge. People will find additional ways to learn, communicate, and solve problems.

These possibilities deserve enthusiasm.

But enthusiasm should not prevent us from asking what kind of relationship we want to establish with the technology we create.

Do we want systems that make decisions difficult to question, or systems that help people understand their choices? Do we want automation that hides responsibility, or tools that make work clearer and more accountable? Do we want intelligence that merely imitates confidence, or intelligence designed to communicate its limitations honestly?

The answers will depend on countless decisions made by developers, researchers, educators, organizations, and users. They will not be determined by technological capability alone.

For a student, this realization offers both a challenge and an opportunity. Learning to build intelligent systems means learning to think carefully about their effects. It means understanding that the work continues after a successful demonstration, because a functioning prototype is only the beginning of a relationship between a tool and its users.

The future will need people who can build sophisticated systems. It will also need people willing to question their assumptions, listen to those affected by their decisions, and recognize when a simpler solution would serve the user better.

Perhaps this is the quiet work behind every intelligent machine: the work that happens before the interface is opened, after the answer appears, and whenever someone asks whether a system is genuinely helping.

The most important achievement of artificial intelligence may not be that machines can do more things that once required human effort.

It may be that we learn to use our own intelligence more carefully—to ask better questions, make more thoughtful decisions, and build tools that expand rather than diminish human capability.

A machine can be impressive because of what it can do.

The technology we should be proudest of is the technology that helps people do something worthwhile with what it makes possible.

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References

1. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (2024). https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.AI.600-1
2. UNESCO. Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (adopted in 2021). https://www.unesco.org/en/legal-affairs/recommendation-ethics-artificial-intelligence

About the Author

Sherzod Suvonov is a student at Tashkent State University of Economics with interests in artificial intelligence, digital transformation, accounting, and modern information systems. His work explores how emerging technologies can address practical problems while remaining understandable, responsible, and useful to people.

Explore more of his work:

• Medium: https://medium.com/@suvonov2310
• GitHub: https://github.com/suvonov2310-a11y

Fiendish friend

Love is written in the tablet of man’s heart

That’s why he takes his solitary lamp and trudge down the dark crooked forest paths

In search of silver and gold.

When fate anoints his journey with fortune

He chooses to be that generous king inviting

The slaves to whine and dine with him —

You smile the smile of an angel, they smile the smile of a vampire. 

Pull their skin from their body

To see the heart harbouring a double-edge dagger.

But can we tell which lizard has a bellyache since they all lie prostate?

Since all faces wear laugher,

How can we tell which laughter is artificial?

Watch them blow the gentle breeze 

And inject your tiny body like tse-tse fly,

And while bury you the pique of a thousand offences

To cuddle man with the gab of love,

Your innocent head drips blood

On the altar of raging grudges —

See why man is to his fellow, a fiendish friend.

Gratitude

Gratitude is, the smoke knowing the origin is fire,

Not amputating the hands that pulled 

The lepper out of a miry clay;

It’s the estuary returning back to the river

After caressing the seashore.

Dig up the past let’s survey the present,

How long did the feverish bird shivered on the cage

Before freedom came knocking on the door?

If now the bird frolicks and scratches the face of the sky,

Does it pay homage to earth, the bedrock of heaven?

After thousand miles of futile race;

Of planting and harvesting nothing

How did the tongue send fervent honour

To all deft hands that dragged sorrow,

Stabbed and nailed it to the cross?

When flourishing like Cedar planted

 By the flowing brook of Lebanon

Be not as foolish as egg challenging the rock to a duel.

But beat the drum of honour

To drive home song of gratitude 

To venerate all who greased your ship to sail.

Ajah Israel Chukwudi is a poet whose pen sails boisterously like a barbed arrow exhuming moral decadence and correcting the anomalies bedeviling the society.  His poetic works is a like a moving train that plies every aspect of human life. He’s a law graduate from Ebonyi state University, Abakaliki Ebonyi state, Nigeria.

Beyond GDP: Rethinking Economic Growth and Human Well-Being in the Modern World

Abstract

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is one of the most widely used indicators for measuring a country’s economic performance. However, economic growth does not always guarantee higher living standards, social equality, or environmental sustainability. This article examines the importance of GDP, its limitations, and the need for a broader approach to measuring economic development. It argues that governments should consider not only the quantity of goods and services produced but also the quality of life, income distribution, environmental protection, and long-term economic stability. A more comprehensive understanding of development can help countries create economies that are both productive and sustainable.

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product, economic growth, sustainable development, income inequality, human well-being, economic policy.

1. Introduction

Economic growth has long been considered one of the main objectives of national economic policy. Governments around the world attempt to increase production, attract investment, develop industries, and improve international competitiveness. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has become a central indicator in evaluating the success of these efforts.

GDP measures the monetary value of all final goods and services produced within a country’s borders during a specific period. An increase in GDP generally indicates that economic activity is expanding. However, a fundamental question remains: does a growing economy always lead to a better life for its citizens?

Although GDP provides valuable information about economic performance, it cannot fully explain the social and environmental consequences of economic activity. A country may experience rapid economic growth while facing rising inequality, environmental degradation, or limited access to essential public services. Therefore, economic success should be evaluated through a broader perspective.

2. The Role of GDP in Economic Development

GDP plays a significant role in modern economic analysis. It enables governments, investors, researchers, and international organizations to assess economic performance and identify changes in production over time.

First, GDP growth can encourage business expansion. When demand increases, companies may invest in new technologies, establish additional production facilities, and employ more workers. These activities can contribute to higher incomes and increased employment opportunities.

Second, GDP provides information for economic policymaking. Governments use GDP data to evaluate economic trends, plan public expenditure, and develop strategies for maintaining stability. Real GDP is particularly useful because it adjusts for price changes and provides a more accurate measure of changes in production.

Third, GDP facilitates comparisons between economies. When combined with population data, GDP per capita provides an estimate of average economic output per person. Nevertheless, GDP per capita is an average and does not reveal how income is distributed across society.

Thus, GDP remains an essential instrument for understanding economic activity, but it should not be treated as a complete measure of national prosperity.

3. The Limitations of GDP as a Measure of Prosperity

One of the main limitations of GDP is its inability to measure income inequality directly. An economy can generate substantial national income while the benefits of growth remain concentrated among a relatively small proportion of the population. In such circumstances, rising GDP may coexist with financial difficulties for many households.

Another limitation concerns environmental sustainability. Industrial production can increase GDP while simultaneously contributing to air pollution, water contamination, and the depletion of natural resources. If environmental damage is ignored, economic statistics may present an incomplete picture of the true costs of development.

Furthermore, GDP does not fully capture unpaid activities such as household work and informal caregiving. These activities contribute significantly to social well-being, even though they are generally not included in GDP when performed without market payment.

Finally, GDP does not directly measure health, education quality, personal security, or life satisfaction. These factors influence people’s opportunities and their ability to benefit from economic progress.

Consequently, an economy should not be considered successful solely because its output is increasing. Sustainable prosperity requires improvements in both material conditions and the broader quality of life.

4. The Relationship Between Economic Growth and Human Well-Being

Economic growth and human well-being are closely connected, but the relationship between them is not automatic. Higher production can provide governments with additional resources to finance education, healthcare, transport infrastructure, and social protection. It can also create employment opportunities and support technological progress.

However, the final outcome depends on how these resources are distributed and used. If economic growth does not generate sufficient employment or improve access to essential services, its benefits may remain limited for large sections of society.

For example, two countries with similar GDP per capita may have different levels of educational opportunity, healthcare accessibility, and income inequality. This demonstrates why economic development should be assessed using multiple indicators rather than a single numerical measure.

A comprehensive approach should combine GDP statistics with indicators such as poverty rates, employment levels, life expectancy, educational attainment, and environmental quality. Together, these measures provide a more balanced understanding of national progress.

5. Towards Sustainable and Inclusive Economic Growth

The limitations of GDP highlight the importance of sustainable and inclusive economic policies. Sustainable development seeks to meet present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Governments can support this objective by investing in renewable energy, improving the efficiency of resource use, strengthening education systems, and encouraging innovation. Such policies can support productivity while reducing environmental costs.

Inclusive growth is equally important. Economic policies should create opportunities for different groups in society to participate in and benefit from economic activity. This includes improving access to quality education, supporting small businesses, developing workforce skills, and reducing unnecessary barriers to employment.

For developing economies, including Uzbekistan, these issues are particularly relevant. Economic diversification, investment in human capital, digital transformation, and the efficient use of natural resources can contribute to stronger long-term development. However, the effectiveness of these measures should be evaluated using reliable national statistics and measurable outcomes.

Ultimately, the objective of economic policy should not simply be to produce more, but to create conditions in which economic progress translates into meaningful and lasting improvements in people’s lives.

Conclusion

Gross Domestic Product remains one of the most important indicators of economic performance, providing essential information about production, growth, and changes in economic activity. Nevertheless, its limitations demonstrate that economic growth alone cannot fully represent national prosperity.

A comprehensive assessment of development should consider income distribution, employment, education, healthcare, environmental sustainability, and human well-being alongside GDP. By adopting a broader approach to economic measurement, governments can design policies that promote not only higher output but also a fairer, healthier, and more sustainable society.

In the long run, the true success of an economy should be measured not only by how much a country produces, but also by how effectively that production improves the lives of its people.

Gaza, Gaza

—To the Souls of the Deceased Children of Gaza

Opening the newspaper, a jarring headline stabs my eyes —

“Disaster within disaster”: three thousand seven hundred and sixty children dead in Gaza;

Scrolling through a friend’s WeChat, furious verses ignite my heart:

“Blood‑sea within blood‑sea”: generations upon generations of hatred perpetuate in Gaza.

I now call back Mr. Eliot, the poet of a past century,

Should there arise a poet whose lecture hall is the battlefield?

I summon Yev­tushenko, author of Mama and the Atomic Bomb,

I ask: Are you still travelling where berries grow everywhere?

I know the battlefield is no basketball court; a poet’s words hold little power.

Humans dart like frantic ants. Has revenge become some people’s excuse for slaughter?

I know invisible fire‑nets spread across the sky, fangs of technology bared.

Drones are no flies; peace has turned into an unforeseen worry.

How can I ever find your three thousand seven hundred and sixty young souls?

All I see are a few elderly women clad in orange in alleyways.

How can I comfort your surviving playmates there?

All I hear is the barking of some dog echoing in stairwells.

I once dreamed of a hundred possible tap‑dance lives for one human being.

Writers there are composing how to stay suspended amid the whirlpool.

I once concluded that anyone’s fate may go off‑target at any moment,

Yet your parents stand in long queues just for a piece of flatbread.

Beneath the sun, I study with children how butterflies take flight.

Have your souls turned into paper cut‑out figurines?

With friends from Taiwan, I play island‑themed games.

Have your souls sought out the White‑Horse Guanyin?

A madwoman asks: Is there real‑name registration for hell?

Ah, I believe every one of you bears a name, a given name.

My gifted daughter says: There is no hell — only the human world.

Ah, I believe you shall be the true witnesses.

The very first composition in life bears a name given by parents.

Your first catastrophe: graveyards become your hometown.

At Xinyuntai Middle School by the sea, I lecture on the humanistic essence of writing;

Through the telescope atop the Oriental Pearl Tower, I gaze afar toward Gaza.

Clouds stretch boundless. How may I pierce the thick mist to behold you?

In which corner lies this war‑torn battlefield!

Wails rise on every side. How may I cross space to reach you?

How many more souls perish amid the roar of guns and blazing fires!

I am not composing poetry. Who could find poetry in news reports?

“Fish that rides a bicycle” — accepting an oracle, I lay down my pen.

I am not crafting prose. I stare numbly at a photograph from Gaza.

Late‑life highlight: a writer cannot bring himself to broach this theme.

This is not an age where war engulfs everything, yet cruelty still lingers.

I seek our true spirit in music, philosophy and poetry.

Why cannot benevolence and justice preside over our world?

Plato, Confucius, Muhammad — where are your podiums?

People discuss how humanity may escape the Anthropocene crisis.

One writer penned: “Man sits on the edge of the world, smiling.”

I confer with AI, searching for new possibilities.

“The world is snowing whole‑heartedly,” I make this proclamation.

River Jordan, Dnieper River, weep day and night; the Yellow River hears their lament.

The United Nations flies its flag at half‑mast — today, this very day, my children!

Gaza City, Al‑Shifa Hospital, refugee camps — Shanghai knows your pain.

I see a little girl on a subway carriage rocking a wooden hobby‑horse chair.

Children, I dream of the 114 UN uncles and aunts;

Of a boulder centuries‑old standing on a high plateau torn by gales.

Children, every grain of sand in Gaza cries out. I dream

Of our green transparent planet assailed by tempests of wind, rain and lightning.

What a montage: bulldozers topple Arafat’s statue.

He once signed the peace accord between Palestine and Israel together with Rabin.

What a stream‑of‑consciousness: the word “Liberation” blazes on your forefathers’ banner.

I once debated with my brother, a former soldier, the necessity and meaning of national liberation.

Some would write history as conquerors,

Becoming machines of war, claiming every stone for themselves.

Some seek to erase eternity. As killers,

They dictate others’ destinies, acknowledging no soul at all.

Absurdity, O mankind! How can I keep silent in reason!

Gaza, Gaza — what unfolds there is truly unprecedented.

Absurdity, O mankind! How could I drive sharp iron nails?

Gaza, Gaza — some souls vanish without leaving a trace.

Once more I call back the great poets of the twentieth century.

O Eliot, listen, listen to this child’s voice:

“I do not wish to see this world. I would rather die with Mother.”

We never get to grow up. Is this not a spiritual trial for poets?

Once more I summon the poet who wrote Mama and the Atomic Bomb.

Mr. Yev­tushenko, your “berries everywhere” symbolises peace.

I Am Not Who Everyone Sees…
“Seeing a person is one thing; feeling their soul is another…”
Sometimes, people think we are happy because we smile, indifferent because we remain silent, and strong because we endure everything. They see how we are today, but they know nothing about the sleepless nights, the thoughts that consume us, or the battles we have fought within ourselves to become who we are…
I, too, am not the person everyone thinks I am.

I have words I have never been able to say to anyone, conversations I have never found the courage to begin, and words I have repeated a thousand times in my mind, only to choose silence in the end. Sometimes, a simple sentence stays in my thoughts all day long. Sometimes, the things that matter deeply to me seem insignificant in the eyes of others. And in those moments, I realize that everyone measures the world through the lens of their own heart.

Sometimes, I wish I could live without overthinking everything, without taking every little thing so personally. But it seems that a person cannot escape their own nature. Once the heart feels something, no matter how hard the mind tries to forget it, certain feelings remain right where they are.

Do you know what the most interesting thing is?

People often know only the side of you that you choose to show them. They know your smile, but not the reason behind it. They notice your silence, but not the countless words hidden within it. They say you have changed, but they never ask about the days that changed you.

Perhaps that is why the greatest world a person possesses lies within them. A world filled with conversations no one has ever heard, memories no one has ever witnessed, and feelings no one has ever truly understood.
I no longer expect everyone to understand me. Because every heart has its own language, and every person carries a story of their own. There is only one thing I wish for: before judging someone, people would take even a moment to consider what that person might have been through.

After all, even the happiest-looking person may carry an unspoken sorrow, and even the quietest person may hold the grandest dreams.

And me…

I am not merely the smile you see, the words you hear, or the silence you observe. I am my mistakes from yesterday, my thoughts of today, my hopes for tomorrow, and the stories I have yet to share with anyone.
Because a person can be seen with the eyes, but to truly understand them, one must look with the heart.

I am not who everyone sees. I am a whole universe that even I have not yet fully discovered…

Gulasal Jumayeva Gulasal Jumayeva was born on July 8, 2010. She is from Shofirkon district, Bukhara region, Uzbekistan. She is currently a 10th-grade student at Secondary School No. 30. She has big dreams, high ambitions, and a heart full of stories yet to be written, dreams waiting to come true, and words waiting to be spoken.

vampires 

in real-life 

Hallowe’en 

you find zombies

in haunted houses

—horror movies

footsteps on the stairs 

a shadow crawls past

just a black cat

snickers bar data—

hiding the good candy 

for himself 

Poems for Mexico Contents

(for Tara)

The Puerto Morelos Pelicans 

There in the sky moving 

Wild, slowly, gliding and 

Ancient looking. 

Maybe It’s the spirit

Of the dinosaur age,

Right there in eye and 

Spirit sight strong

I watch and wonder and

Think of those far away times

Before man, and wonder

At existence

Moon Notebooks

I always kept a notebook 

During travels. Keywords 

To remember,- the subjects

Of prose poems and stories.

Sometimes I called myself

Saturday Moon, and

The papers were loyal

Confidants on planes and

Balconies, at desks

And waiting areas.

Words and sentences,

Frankly frame the large

Unabridged world 

Wild Water Storms

The Ocean Turquoise was the

Name of the place, and it was 

Storm season, the jellyfish

Stinging and the waters churning

And disheveled. But,

Even overcast air is okay

For the Terra cotta structure

Of the place and to be there

Is fine. A country with soul,

An area with delight and

both fine and rugged beauty 

Stray Cats

Groups I could see from

The balcony,- running together,

Being, there by the local trees and

Shrubs, out to the interlock and

Near the warm glow of 

Ground lights. Be well cats. 

Stick together. Beige. Brown. 

Fast. Soul. Each a soul and

The group also a soul. 

Go and go well.

Lizard by the Light

Reading a book and in the nights

I noticed the green lizard on the stucco wall. 

It was calm and maybe liked the warmth of the nearby light. That balcony had a view where

One could see the wondrous grounds

And the sense sea beyond. Magic. The

Things that make for mystery and 

Open mystical lyrical areas and feelings,

Attitudes and spiritual awakenings.

To have a good lace and literature,

To have a soulmate and the southern 

Worlds and salt water tides…

Playa Del Carmen Rosary

The bright days. Coffee shop. Outlet stands of wares…jewellery and clothing. One of the

First places had a magical and soulful rosary. What a find. I should have bought two. It has lasted all these years, colourful and Godly. A piece of that place and some help to pray and remember and strive for the divine, the eternal. 

Clear Water Calm 

The Ocean. See the sea. How could it be so clear and warm, healing, and fine? A great place in the world. Expatriates. Locals. Tourists. But room for everyone. The strong ancient sun. Calm. Everything is alive but still calm. An inner prayer is happening. There must be a spiritual light besides the worldly light, an enlightening light, a light that we look for again but that has also been with us since the beginning…