Archive for February, 2009
Snapshots from Our Neighborhood
POVERTY by Pablo Neruda
Ah you don’t want to, you’re scared of poverty,
you don’t want to go to the market with worn-out shoes and come back with the same old dress.
My love, we are not fond as the rich would like us to be, of misery.
We shall extract it like an evil tooth that [...]
February 13th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Lost in the snow in Juarez
When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez
And it’s Eastertime too
And your gravity fails
And negativity don’t pull you through
Dylan
It wasn’t raining, and Easter is 2 months away, but Bob’s lines melodiously swirled in my head as I tried to capture the snow falling over our city. It was cold and refreshing and for a few [...]
February 11th, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Fatally Comfortable
All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don’t tiptoe.
-Irresistible Revolution
In my research to find statistics for what is really going on here in this bloody city, the most dangerous city in Mexico which seems to [...]
Posted in Life in Juarez, Matt and Misty LindseyTags: Ciudad Juarez, Desmund Tutu, Shane Claiborne, The Desert
February 7th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Greening the Ghetto: The Desert in Color
The concrete-gray washes over me like a tidal wave of rubble, with 100 million plastic bags and a few hundred thousand worn out tires embedded in its curling face. Even with the dusty trashy mess, our neighborhood has me enamored. Everyone keeps warning us about the sinister dust storms that roll across the desert in March and April, [...]
Posted in Art, Featured, Life in Juarez, hopeTags: Border Explorer, Border-blog, Bruce Berman, Ciudad Juarez, Greening the Ghetto, Matt and Misty Lindsey, The Desert
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February 14th, 2009 by mmlindsey