Tag Archive | Mexico
TIGER, TIGER BURNING BRIGHT
Tiger, tiger, burning bright in the forests of the night. What immortal hand or eye, dare frame thy fearful symmetry.” William Blake It’s easy to see why Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s fantasy novel, Life of Pi, became a surprise success story around the world, winning four awards from eleven nominations in the Academy […]
MY MOTHER
Yesterday was the thirtieth anniversary of my mother’s dying. So long ago and in another life. Sometimes it hardly seems as if she was here at all. She was such a tiny wisp of a lady at only 4’11″, and gone too early before her 73rd birthday. My father had given her a snow mobile […]
OUR VANISHING VOICES
I Am Home sculpture by kayti Sweetland Rasmussen “One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly one half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on earth will disappear as communities abandon native tongues in favor of Enlish, Mandarin or Spanish”. As one Native American in Parker, Arizona, who is one of the […]
THE MANY FACES OF MATA ORTIZ
In a small village at the end of a long dirt road, magic happens every day. It is an earthly magic, worked by men, women and children at kitchen tables and in backyards all over town, and its elements are very simple. A handful of mud. A few sticks and stones and human hairs. A […]
