Yesterday morning on KUNM, the invaluable National Public Radio Station where five days a week I listen to “Native America Calling,” the only program in the country to showcase the tribes, I heard about a business in Arizona that makes prosthetic devices—arms, hands, partial hands and legs.
Blog Posts about New Mexico
Bone
We Will Never Learn
Finally, finally, the story of the Native American boarding schools in the U.S. has been sprung open by the discovery of the buried remains of more than a hundred children at a residential boarding school in Canada.
Tractor Art
This broken fragment means more to me than the vaunted collections of art I’ve seen in many museums, here and all over the world—this humble evidence of respect for handiwork and the human need to embellish.
Flashing on the Sixties
I am not an unequivocal admirer of that period, those people, and all that they caused—or helped to cause—to happen, in the early 1960’s and continuing to this day.
Choice
No one in her right mind is “pro-abortion.” I know from personal experience what a difficult decision this is.
Black Canyon
One of the many blessings of my life is the trail system in Hyde Park which starts about ten miles north of my house.
No water
My plight is not so dire as what will face all of us when our water really is gone.
Guilty Until Proved Innocent…
Does fearlessness on the part of girls and young women cancel judgement and common sense?
Vegetables and Recovery
For me, there’s an irresistible connection between the baskets of glowing vegetables at our Saturday Farmers’ Market and the hope expressed in this poster for recovery from addiction.
Living in a World on Fire
Driving down from Taos yesterday, I followed a dusty, beat-up pickup truck with an American flag painted on the tailgate.