Family, Culture, Community and Covid in Mexico and New Mexico: Thoughts
Preface: It’s Labor Day. We depend on labor wherever we live to work the fields, harvest food, wash dishes or cook in restaurants, sew clothes, tend our nursery-school age children and grandchildren, build, repair or clean our homes. Before I learned the word, Huelga from Cesar Chavez when I participated in the California Farm Workers […]
Travel Now to Oaxaca Poses Big Risk to First Peoples
I’m writing this because a recent WhatsApp conversation among friends focused on how to respond to people who plan to go to Oaxaca this winter. I’m writing to ask you to think about your own travel plans there and urge you to reconsider. The map of Covid-19 cases has exploded across the USA in the […]
Vast Austerity of Landscape: Speaking of (New) Mexico and Georgia O’Keeffe
I’m in New Mexico and hour north of Santa Fe in the village of Abiquiu, where painter Georgia O’Keeffe reconstructed a dilapidated adobe, converting it into a winter home of extraordinary minimalism. She would have been at home in the living simply movement of modernity. One could also say she shaped it. Here in Nuevo […]