Zih Despedida

What an incredibly beautiful day it was in Zihuatanejo Bay. The ceremony to commemorate the life and the 92nd birthday of our departed friend Owen Lee was well attended. It was a lovely nativist ceremony, and friends from different stages of Owen's life gathered at Owen's former nature center and home at Playa Las Gatas where he arrived back in the late 60's. It was all so familiar, like so many previous gatherings, yet we all knew it would be our last time together at Owen's. An era has come to an end, and a completely different future is in store for Punta del Rey, Las Gatas and all of Zihuatanejo than the one we had all envisioned not really all that long ago. All things must pass, of course, but we could do a better job caretaking the planet if we weren't so conditioned to accept such a broken version of humanity and our collective place in this world.

Owen's friends gathered round his ashes.

After the ceremony a boat takes the ashes out of the bay to be dispersed.