“Wizipan Garriott, 28, has been appointed First Americans Public Liaison, a newly created position in President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team.” AJA
Bailout THIS
RedClout suggests a different bailout. As if the government ever would. Which is the point. AJA
Repressed National Memories
The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation was established, as a concentration camp, on November 9, 1871. The intent was to remove from land coveted by the U.S. government and local settlers various Apache bands – originally, among the “Western Apaches,” the Pinal, Aravaipa, Apache Peaks, Tonto, and San Carlos bands – and concentrate them on […]
The Spring Season
The image below was shot by Julia on Lake Titicaca in Peru during her most recent photo workshop, this past June. We were on one of the Lake’s floating islands, constructed by the inhabitants out of the reeds that grow out of the water. These Uros people are Aymara speakers, the language of the dominant […]
In Not Out
I’ve made the drive from Los Angeles to Idyllwild or Palm Springs or Palm Desert more than a few times, but these days in Banning have been a reminder of the difference between observation and experience. Passing by in a car, looking out through a window (not an unpleasant experience for a tracking-shot-impassioned cinephile), beyond […]