Stages — Computer Art by kenne
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Prickly Pear Still Life (August 3, 2015) — Computer Art by kenne
Yesterday, the blossoms of the barrel cactus, today the fruit of the prickly pear cactus.
Early Morning Hike – Image by kenne
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Old Western Bunk House
Off the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historical Trail
near the Santa Cruz River.
— Computer Art by kenne
Images by kenne
If I could be you
And you could be me
For just one hour
If we could find a way
To get inside
Each other’s mind, mmm
If you could see you
Through your eyes
Instead of your ego
I believe you’d be
Surprised to see
That you’d been blind, mmm
Walk a mile in my shoes
Walk a mile in my shoes
Hey, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes
Now your whole world
You see around you
Is just a reflection
And the law of karma
Says you’re gonna reap
Just what you sow, yes you will
So unless
You’ve lived a life of
Total perfection
You’d better be careful
Of every stone
That you should throw, yeah
And yet we spend the day
Throwing stones
At one another
‘Cause I don’t think
Or wear my hair
The same way you do, mmm
Well I may be
Common people
But I’m your brother
And when you strike out
And try to hurt me
It’s a-hurtin’ you, lord have mercy
Walk a mile in my shoes
Walk a mile in my shoes
Hey, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes
There are people
On reservations
And out in the ghettos
And brother there
But for the grace of God
Go you and I, yeah, yeah
If I only
Had the wings
Of a little angel
Don’t you know I’d fly
To the top of the mountain
And then I’d cry
Walk a mile in my shoes
Walk a mile in my shoes
Hey, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Better walk a mile in my shoes
Walk a mile in my shoes
Walk a mile in my shoes
Uh, before you abuse, criticize and accuse
Walk a mile in my shoes, yeah
Walk a mile in my shoes
— Joe South
“The Sky Peeled Back” (Santa Catalina Mountains) — Image by kenne
― Luis Alberto Urrea, from Into the Beautiful North
The Tucson Festival of Books (Click here to learn more) is this weekend, March 14th & 15th. There are a lot of reasons to attend this event, high on the my list is to attend a tribute to Chuck Bowden, a southwest literary legend. Bowden died last August at age 69 here in Tucson. One of the panel members will be author and friend, Luis Alberto Urrea.
Tony Davis writes in today’s Arizona Daily star:
“In 1993, just after Luis Alberto Urrea’s first book Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border hit the shelves, Urrea got a 6 a.m. call at his San Diego home from a gruff, gravelly voice.”
“The caller said, ‘This is Chuck Bowden. I stayed up all night reading your book. You own me money.’
I asked why. He said, ‘Because I ordered 40 copies for my friends,’ Urrea recalled.”
I first learned of Urrea when he appeared on Bill Moyers’ Moyers and Company in 2012, during which he read from his epic poem, Ghost Sickness, about the death of his father.
I continue working at becoming a better student of these two great writers.
kenne
Source: DAVID FITZSIMMONS Arizona Daily Star
