December 30, 2019 at 9:16 pm (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Links, Lists, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: flash fiction, Just published, Literary Magazines, Mondays, poetry, short pieces, TransGenre
Flash by Alex Behr, César Valdebenito, Kim Magowan, Tommy Dean, Matthew Greene, Anna Oberg, Savannah Slone, Marianne Villanueva, Mary Senter, Corey Miller, Connor Goodwin, Jude Vivienne Dexter, Francine Witte * Short Stories by Stefani Nellen, Marilee Dahlman, Theo Greenblatt (Trigger warning: sexual assault) * Poetry by Alice Hall, Nathan Lipps, Jeremy Rain * Creative Nonfiction by Keygan Sands and Kharys Ateh Laue * Visual Narrative by Trevor Alixopulos * Art by Nance Van Winckel * Emerging Artists and much, much more!
from A History of Anyway
Intermedia
by Nance Van Winckel
Sad lad of the far north, you with no means and no true lassie, with no way home and no home anyway
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December 30, 2019 at 1:40 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Lists, Memoirs, Personal Bookshelf, plans, Women Writers)
Tags: Mondays, nonfiction, reading lists
There are some jobs I can’t make myself do. An eight to five is deadly; I need to fill more than my stomach. I can’t work in the mines, can’t work at Walmart, and can’t be a Border Patrol agent. For those jobs, you’d have to wear a hairnet or some ridiculous rectangular uniform, or be there for hours on end, like being in a cage. That would be impossible.
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December 30, 2019 at 5:56 am (Books, Eavesdropping, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: nonfiction, reading lists, Sundays
. . . when people from south of the Border drove to Tucson to work and then returned home to live, a time when the U.S. Mexico line was a wire lying on the ground and we crossed the border like birds.
— Kathryn Ferguson
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December 30, 2019 at 4:19 am (Books, Memoirs, Personal Bookshelf, Publishers, Sundays, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: nonfiction, reading lists
Found this book in Mesilla! Published by University of New Mexico Press. It begins with a quote:
For those who must leave home and travel to another land.
Introduction:
When you think of fear, you think about the five-foot-long Black Iguana with alligator eyes, ridges of teeth, and spiked backbone. It looks terrifying. As it charges you with world-record speed, you panic. But upon observation, you see that it prefers to dine on flowers and fruit. Such is the nature of fear. It is only imagination, up until the day you are eaten.
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December 29, 2019 at 3:32 pm (Conversations, Lists, Sundays)
Tags: news
Strangely, the words that bother me most are these that I saw last night:
WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE?
May I kindly request people to keep quiet if all they can say in response to an atrocity like this is Why Is There So Much Hate?
And now, since POTUS, no one can say:
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.
without sounding like a hypocrite.
How about this other generic response?
WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 27, 2019 at 12:58 pm (Books, Conversations, Recommended)
Tags: English writers, fantasy, favorites, Fridays, novel, wisdom
Detail of David Delamare Print, “On the Dragon’s Back”
“Every worm has his weak spot,” as my father used to say, though I am sure it was not from personal experience.
— Bilbo Baggins, The Annotated Hobbit, Ch. XII: Inside Information
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December 26, 2019 at 6:47 am (Books, Holidays, Recommended)
Tags: English writers, fantasy, novel, reading lists
In a great hall with pillars hewn out of the living stone sat the Elvenking on a chair of carven wood. On his head was a crown of berries and red leaves, for the autumn was come again.
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December 25, 2019 at 8:05 am (Holidays, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended)
Tags: Christmas, history, New Mexico
Self read the following in a brochure she picked up from the Double Eagle, a restaurant facing Mesilla’s old plaza, itself a National Historic Landmark:
The name Mesilla is first found and inscribed on a map in a report to the King of Spain by Don Juan de Onate dated 1598. This makes it predate the arrival of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock by 22 years. It was first part of Mexico: the US border lay just 3 miles north. It became part of the United States as part of the Gadsden Purchase of 1854.
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December 24, 2019 at 5:51 pm (Food and Drink, Holidays, Links, Niece, Places, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Christmas, England, London, Prague, restaurants
Excited that it’s ALMOST CHRISTMAS!
Excited, too, to be able to participate in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this weeK: ONE BASIC COLOR.
Here are some pictures self took earlier this year, in May. She was in London and then joined her niece Irene in Prague, her first-time ever in that wondrous city:
- The Church of St. Martin-in-the-Field, just off Trafalgar Square, London
- The London Eye
- St. Martin restaurant in the Mala Strada district of Prague, just a few doors away from the American Embassy
Self just realized, looking at her shots and comparing to Cee Neuner’s, that self’s are extremely monochromatic. Ah, well!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 23, 2019 at 3:58 am (destinations, Places, Recommended, Sundays, The Economist)
Tags: causes, environment, politics
The Economist sent a reporter to traverse the length of the southern border, from El Paso to San Diego. The result below:
p. 39:
El Paso to San Diego: Donald Trump’s wall will irrevocably change America’s southern border
. . . a new wall is rising, and it will not be so easily sliced through. America’s new border wall is made of 30-foot-tall (18 in some places) steel bollards filled with concrete, sunk six feet deep into a concrete foundation and topped with five-foot slabs of solid steel designed to impede climbing . . .
Some Democrats argue that Mr. Trump is merely replacing walls that already exist. That is not true. When a 30-foot wall, impenetrable to wildlife and surrounded by a network of roads and lights, replaces a low fence, it really is a new structure, in much the same way that replacing a garden shed with a ten-storey office block would be. A journey from El Paso to San Diego makes clear just how deeply the wall will change the character of America’s southwestern border. Emma Lazarus’s poem on the Statue of Liberty welcomes to America the world’s “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Mr. Trump’s wall sends the opposite message.
In Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, an environmental atrocity occurs:
. . . along the new sections of wall . . . lie massive, fallen saguaro cactuses in sections — bulldozed for the barrier. They can live for centuries. Some of those cut down were probably standing before Arizona was a state.
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