When I began writing a blog post every day as a part of Nablopomo, National Blog Posting Month, to join the celebration of Nablopomo officially becoming a part of BlogHer I knew it would be tough, but I had no idea how much extra stress I would be under. Why do we women always think […]
Arizona Constitution Protects Occupy Tucson Yet Arrests Continue
For Tucson this past week has been a busy one. First the air was calming down after El Tour de Tucson, and gearing up for Buy Nothing Day and Shop Local Saturday, then on Thanksgiving the air was abuzz with how wonderful it was that Gabby Giffords was able to serve Thanksgiving dinner to the […]
Arizona Constitution Protects Occupy Tucson Yet Arrests Continue
For Tucson this past week has been a busy one. First the air was calming down after El Tour de Tucson, and gearing up for Buy Nothing Day and Shop Local Saturday, then on Thanksgiving the air was abuzz with how wonderful it was that Gabby Giffords was able to serve Thanksgiving dinner to the […]
bread and cupcake crumbs
bread and cupcake crumbs by nancy hill today I am thinking about polka dots birthday parties babies that i love but scarcely know trajectories unknown then a mothers sister’s mother loved me less than all her other mothers in decades beyond remembrance her toddler tentacles of charm and distributed intelligence ensnared me no less […]
More of Dorothea Lange's Images & Subjects
Continuing yesterday’s topic of parallels between the Great Depression and the current Recession, the fragility of families and children in the 99%, both then and now, is troubling. Lange’s photos personalized the migrants who took to the roads looking for labor in the fields of the west after their jobs were either lost to the […]
Photo Similarities Between the Times of the Great Depression & Great Recession
Spent some time today looking at National Archive photos and Wikimedia Commons pics and found these parallel pics. Dorothea Lange’s photos of the Dust Bowl, Migrants in California, and the general sadness and despair caused by land abuse and economic abuse seem oddly contemporary.