December 2008

The World Again

December 9, 2008

darkness come to light Bright son sitting in a pool, calm, ripple, feel Grass around Pain of becoming Oh Tall faces against the wide sky so Hold me Hear me not Cry in silence Where I come from In this utter presence From this merely mine With these great and meager presents Shine AJA Los [...]

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Christmas Pageant; Willcox, Arizona

December 8, 2008

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The View from Our Window

December 8, 2008

The conservative (with an eighteenth century, Burkean C) blogger and journalist Andrew Sullivan is always interestingly independent of thought. (He voted for Kerry in 2004, supported Obama, and wants Bush, Cheney, et al. tried for war crimes.) He has a feature on his blog, The Daily Dish, called “The View from Your Window,” in which [...]

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Serves the Newb Right

December 8, 2008

A reader writes of the Newb’s Job-like afflictions: 1) serves you right for using Windows Vista. 2) If you don’t have an iPhone you have no business using AT&T. 3) I’m impressed you can use “solenoid” in a sentence. 4) You look so bad-ass in that photo. To which the Newb has instructed the following reply: 1) so true [...]

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The Spring Season

December 8, 2008

The image below was shot by Julia on Lake Titicaca in Peru during her most recent photo workshop, this past June. We were on one of the Lake’s floating islands, constructed by the inhabitants out of the reeds that grow out of the water. These Uros people are Aymara speakers, the language of the dominant [...]

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In Not Out

December 8, 2008

I’ve made the drive from Los Angeles to Idyllwild or Palm Springs or Palm Desert more than a few times, but these days in Banning have been a reminder of the difference between observation and experience. Passing by in a car, looking out through a window (not an unpleasant experience for a tracking-shot-impassioned cinephile), beyond [...]

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Job Among the RVites

December 5, 2008

There was a man in the land of RV, whose name was Newbie; and that man was imperfect and uptight, and one that feared Ill Fortune, and eschewed the vain attempt. Now there was a day when the sons of Ill Fortune came to present themselves before the SOB, and Murphy came also among them. [...]

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Katherine Siva Saubel

December 4, 2008

When we first publicly announced to colleagues and friends by email our intention to produce a book on contemporary Native American life, we asked those we contacted, as an aide to our research, for any referrals in the Native community they could offer us. The response was great and gratifying. In a culture at large [...]

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Adventures in Newbiedom

December 2, 2008

Little noted in anthropological circles is the kinship between the preindustrial, bush animist and the modern, urban, apartment dweller (sub-species homo sapiens apartmentopithecus). The animist, desiring light, might rub two sticks together and petition the god of fire; seeking information, put his ear to the ground and wait for vibration. Apartmentopicthecus, in need of light, [...]

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The Open Road

December 2, 2008

In the summer of 2006, the year of its eightieth anniversary, Julia and I flew to Chicago to drive the length of old Route 66 from its starting point at Michigan Avenue to its end at the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles. Our article on the history of the route, and on westward travel in [...]

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How We Named Our Blog…

December 2, 2008

In 1993, I spent five months in India working on a children’s book and other photographic projects. I remember some pretty lonely moments. One of those times was during a nine-hour bus ride of heavy thoughts from Mangalore to Bangalore, alone in a third world country without another living soul aware of my whereabouts. This [...]

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