Posts Tagged ‘Matt and Misty 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, [...]
January 29th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
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 [...]
December 7th, 2008 by mmlindsey
In the Mud
If your religion is one in which you are not required to change the way you live your life, it is one God rejects. ~Desmund Tutu We left Ciudad Juarez a few weeks ago and I was feeling a bit thrashed, like I’d been trying to run uphill against the wind. Questions like, “Really, just what [...]
February 7th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey