These days, it’s hard to recognize that America. The wage stagnation that began in the late ’70s has since bestowed on us the kind of income inequality more typical of a third-world oligarchy. The real minimum wage is less than it was in 1968, and the richest 1 percent of Americans take home nearly 25 … More That America
“It led to a forgetting. Of self, of work, of relationship to self and work and others.” Read the whole post. Actually it is quite common to be told to do as one is told, because if one does not follow instructions precisely, one will fall off a cliff. Of course it is only sometimes … More A most interesting post from Moria. On strategy
Axé.
I stayed in the country for a while, living in León. And Bill Deshon, Shipley, Dixie, Bob Gray, Bill Stoker, and others came to see me and they told me about the second expedition and Walker’s death. How on the Mississippi one night he silently weighed anchor: They landed on the coast of Honduras late … More With Walker in Nicaragua – trozo final
Axé.
I unexpectedly saw the inauguration of the live Nativity at 4:30 PM, 23 December 2011, at the shrine of St. Francis of Assisi at Columbus and Vallejo in San Francisco. There were four angels, three shepherds, two goats, two lambs, one llama, one donkey, and one Holy Family with a live baby. Outside was an … More St. Francis of Assisi
They loved Granada like a woman. Even today tears well up in their eyes when they remember the loss of their dear Granada the town of the Chamorros … Where once there was love. At last the pure waters, the clean blue breezes of the early morning and out of Granada with its red corpses … More Granada after Walker
I like the vertical bands in this photograph – the upper wall, the mountain, the shade, the couch, with the vertical breaks of the windowframe and lamps. Axé.
I ended up in Granada, Nicaragua in December of 2005, because it was so inexpensive to get there and I wanted to get away from Katrina’s New Orleans. Had I been thinking more clearly I would have remembered what I usually explain: that Louisiana is like Honduras, El Salvador or Nicaragua, so to go to … More Granada, Nicaragua as seen by our narrator
There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now. EUGENE O’NEILL, A Moon for the Misbegotten. Axé.
