Archive for January, 2009
Seven Months in the Desert
The history of Mexico is the history of a man seeking his parentage, his origins. He has been influenced at one time or another by France, Spain, the United States and the militant indigenists of his own country, and he crosses history like a jade comet, now and then giving off flashes of lightning. What [...]
January 23rd, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Uncomfortable Beauty
When someone strips a man of his clothes, we call him a thief. And one who might clothe the naked and does not – should not he be given the same name? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat in your wardrobe belongs to the naked; the shoes you let rot [...]
January 21st, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
God's Middle Finger
But the largest component of Mexico’s economy was still drug trafficking, estimated at fifty billion dollars a year… without it there would be economic collapse. According to a leaked study conducted in 2001 by Mexico’s internal security agency CISEN, and quoted in Charles Bowden’s Down by the River, if the drug business was somehow wiped out Mexico’s [...]
January 20th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
The Desert Weight
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human– looks out of the heart burning with purity– for [...]
January 12th, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Reflections of a New Year
Cazry jbumle of tugohts and emtonios. Forgive my sloppy smearing of them all over your computer as I attempt an investigation of what is truly going on in my heart and mind. The past month and a half has been overstuffed with people, activities, work, travel, great food, rainbows of emotion, responsibility, illness, relationships, introductions, [...]
January 29th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey