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 […] Read More
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 […] Read More
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) Happy New Year! It’s the first day of 2022, and the winds of change are definitely blowing this […] Read More

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).