Most of us are familiar with R & R, Rest and Relaxation. That has been my preferred mode for the past five days and will continue for the next 2-3 days following the implant of a new, a third, mitral valve clip. For the uninitiated, that’s a cardiology procedure to stem the regurgitation, a heart
In 1998, at the Santa Fe Indian Art Market, I met Ernest Honanie, a Hopi wood carver/artist from Second Mesa, AZ. Ernest is from Kykotsmovi, one of several villages there. I purchased a Katchin Mana (Yellow Corn Maiden) and since 1998 and several moves she has suffered a bit of damage and needs a little
We would do well to be clear about five or six things which means seeing them as they are and as they are documented by reliable, honest, and smart people. It may not be what you would like to believe. It may not be what you think you hear or what you see written by
“We live in the interstices. One thing ends, another begins. A season ends and a season begins. A day ends and a new day begins. A job ends and a better job begins. A relationship ends, another begins. A life ends, other lives begin. We mark time by endings and beginnings – birthdays, anniversaries,
(Note: Some parts of this article were published previously. Repeating those for emphasis and adding a few updates.) The history of the United States is black, brown, olive, red and white. That is in alphabetic order of color. We are not color blind and white people have suppressed and oppressed people of color for centuries.
Thousands of years of wisdom literature have used the techniques of oral storytelling that was then disseminated in written form. The collections include the wisdom literature from Sumeria and Babylonia, among the most ancient in the world, with the Sumerian documents dating back to the third millennium BC and and the Babylonian dating to the
