I can’t forget an eloquent letter in The Santa Fe New Mexican recently from a man who is invisible to most of us except when his monster eighteen-wheeler rushes past on the throughway.
Blog Posts about New Mexico
Shooters
How often have those of us—and there are many—whose sharp intelligence and ambition have not provided an escape from unresolved psychological problems found a route to normalcy through intellectual achievement and acceptance?
Vindication
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s grant of 1.6 million dollars to pay for the digitalization of thousands of tape-recorded oral histories of indigenous people has a special meaning for me.
Red-Headed Man
I am proud of the Red-Headed Man.
The Blessing of Snow
For anyone who lives where early January brings the first major snowfall, there is a feeling that everything is right with the world.
Two More Seconds of Daylight
Where tribes were destroyed or driven out, many of us relative newcomers are not aware of the history that confronts us here in the Southwest every day.
A Bright Light
This week, president-elect Joe Biden’s appointment of Laguna pueblo native, Debra Haaland, as Secretary of the Interior, gives proof positive of change.
The Paper Carrier’s Prayer
Every year at about this time, Yolanda leaves a typed note with the newspaper.
Taos Pueblo and the Battle for Blue Lake
Cooperation to restore rights, to serve justice, and to recognize the sacred. That’s what I hope for when our new administration takes over in January.
The Way to Do It
What has happened since to weaken our moral fiber and make some of us unwilling to sacrifice?