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.
Thanksgivng Hero
The Tucson community is once again abuzz with news of Gabby Giffords. This time it is good news. While you may not agree with Blue Dog support of everything military as Gabby has tended to do in her political career, she does provide inspiration and shows what determination can do if you have medical and […]
Happy Birthday Grand Daughters!
Sharing something from my amazingly adept at poetic endeavors son-in-law to the Grandbabies on their first birthday, which always and forever happens to be today. – on yr first birthday by Aaron Balkan One of you lives for red meat. One of you favors cheese of the goat. I know who. I remember the football […]
Home and Family
Thanksgiving approaches and it is a special one. Aren’t they all? My daughter graduates from college in a few weeks and moves away. She stayed in the old hometown for college, and so this move away is her first real move away from home. I’ve considered myself in the same category as empty nesters for […]
Why Buying Local Is Better, Usually
If you are a small business operator starting out in a new direction, as I am, there is so much to consider beyond the usual business plan if you are also a political creature, as I am. When I was a graduate student studying semiotic analysis of cultural systems, my major professor told me there […]