James Baldwin was the conscience of the United States. He took a cold, hard look at his nation and called out its injustices in writing that was cadenced, even-handed, and true. He was a great novelist and, arguably, an even greater essayist; he simply knew things about the human soul that others didn’t know, and […]
They say the sun rose twice over a corner of southern New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The first sunrise was produced by the detonation of a new weapon its makers had nicknamed “the gadget.” The actual sun rose 10 minutes later, dawning on a new era in human history. The world’s first atomic bomb […]
There is a way through Spain that is all horseshoe arches, keyhole windows and bronze doors carved in Arabic script. It meanders into crenelated forts, Moorish castles overlooking the Mediterranean and grand mosques reconfigured by Christians into cathedrals.As the child of an Iraqi woman and a Swedish-American man, I have always been drawn to places […]
Observations and Insights on the Nature of Things By Eve West Bessier, Poet Laureate Emerita of Silver City and Grant County, New Mexico The Spanish are forward thinking people. I say this because of the convenient and helpful assistance in the Spanish written language of the inverted question mark and exclamation point at the start […]
Observations and Insights on the Nature of Things By Eve West Bessier, Poet Laureate Emerita of Silver City and Grant County, New Mexico A hand-embroidered Otomi table runner adorns the marigold wall of my living room. I didn’t want to subject this work of art to the staining dangers of mealtimes. Imagine the long tail […]
Observations and Insights on the Nature of Things A monthly blog by Eve West Bessier, Poet Laureate Emerita of Silver City and Grant County, New Mexico. Look for a new post every 1st Saturday. (Free stock photo) A tangled pile of clipped grapevines takes up a corner of Teresa’s driveway, the harvest of her fall […]
We respectfully acknowledge that the entirety of southwestern New Mexico is the traditional territory, since time immemorial, of the Chis-Nde, also known as the people of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. The Chiricahua Apache Nation is recognized as a sovereign Native Nation by the United States in the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Friendship of 1 July 1852 (10 Stat. 979) (Treaty of Santa Fe ratified 23 March 1853 and proclaimed by President Franklin Pierce 25 March 1853).
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