What seems to me a balanced post on the Obama speech, by marjorie here in Albuquerque. She mentions two things that stood out for me in skimming the first couple paragraphs of the speech: no mention of the genocide of native people by Europeans on this continent, and multiple descents into the kind […]
Context: I wrote a draft of this back in the summer after attending a house party thrown by a neighbor to support a candidate for city council.
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Recently, a good friend sent me a link to a blog that’s all about sustainability. It’s interesting, engaging, well written, well researched, nicely illustrated, even cute. […]
Max Dashu, of the Suppressed Histories Archive, has created the DVD Women’s Power, “a condensed history of the range of female leadership, wisdom, creativity, and courage, around the world and over thousands of years. It’s a culturally diverse look at female governors, elders, clan mothers, culture-makers, healers, priestesses, poets, musicians, doctors, witches, athletes, rebels, […]
When was the last time this happened to a straight person you know?
From here.
From The Alibi, Albuquerque’s alternative newsweekly:
Without much notice, the federal government was authorized last year to make large cash payments to every U.S. county government along the U.S.-Mexico border. These payments were to cover the extra cost of law enforcement for issues related to undocumented immigrants crossing in increasing numbers…
What occurred next [in Otero County, […]
I have had to sit myself down and take a good hard look at the reality: my brain is broken.
I don’t know if it has always been broken. I suspect so. I suspect that my father’s line carries some kind of hereditary brain-brokenness; of course, it’s hard to know which comes first, […]
Remember how I was complaining about the backyard a few weeks ago?
Turns out, after discussions with E and C, that those weeds back there are lamb’s quarters.
According to Wikipedia:
Lamb’s quarters may be eaten as a vegetable, either steamed in its entirety, or the leaves are cooked like spinach as a leaf vegetable. Each plant […]
Via SWOP:
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Join us on Tuesday, August 28, 2007, - in a national day of action to expose and continue denouncing the devastating humanitarian crisis being visited on immigrant families, workers and communities by […]
The yard.
At my last place, the owner maintained a lovely lush courtyard with a water feature, mature trees, and flowering bulbs and vines. It was gorgeous. I loved it.
But since she decided I was too scruffy and tasteless for her, now we live here.
It’s not gorgeous. I don’t love it. This house […]
Just for the record, this and all similar posts should be interpreted as expressions of my creativity and joie de vivre.
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