May 2009
3 posts
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"when the fantasy has ended" - nacho libre
i’m enjoying a hot cup of stolen chiapas coffee. i’m enjoying everything this morning. as i was cleaning out my office yesterday i took with me everything that was me, including all hand-written notes, all evidence of my vita and bio, and anything that i wrote from my heart, whether it had to do with the job or not. obviously, i couldn’t take back all of the grants i had written...
i blew up the border patrol caravan using my underwire bra bomb.
March 2009
19 posts
painful political positionalities
my head is swimming with the politics of place, privileged institutions and power-hungry people, well-meaning yet fully uninformed groups attempting to supply the people with broken systems and half-composed dreams, imposing food systems pathways that further marginalize the people they call “they,” the unnamed and faceless Other, further subalterned at the mercy of the powers that...
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the basics
i fear permanent damage to my calf. it has been suggested that possibly turf shoes and not cleats are the way to go. i worked my calf cramp from last sunday’s practice out, and after ten minutes in the game last night it seized again. how disappointing to watch my sisters from the sidelines and only offer verbal support. i might be consoled with hobbling through date night tonight. it is...
it was recently reported that there have been so many cases of strep throat among our city’s children that several clinic’s and pediatrician’s offices ran out of strep tests. class enrollment was low. grace seemed a little peakish yesterday when i returned home from work, felt a bit warm, and asked, do i have strep throat? i replied, why, does your throat hurt? and she gingerly...
walk through wonderland
last year grace and i lived in mexico. i was all jumbled up about what it meant to get my phd, what it meant to be human, what it meant to research other people’s lives… you get the picture. part of me thought i would never come back to the US, for obvious reasons if you know anything about my political leanings, and part of me knew that i would return to where i was from, because...
last night’s soccer game, though a 3-1 loss, was exhilirating as i was able to handle the ball and sprint and even managed a really good ‘header.’ today i am sore. huila, my wonder dog that i love so dearly, got into the garden and tore up the beds. i plopped right down and cried. i have an appointment at 8 am with Garden-Hers farm to pick up seedlings, and i’ve fixed the...
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the prospectus
i think it might be done. uh oh, what do we do when success panics us?
speaking truth to power: reimagining our...
talking with my colleague today at work, just before our HUD audit, i really began to consider the divergent threads within the ever-expanding narrative of “food justice.” i made the case for the emergence of the theoretical framework for food justice deriving from the nexus of theoritical interfacing together with praxis research and lived experience during my dissertation coursework...
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“Capitalist production [works] by simultaneously undermining the original sources...”
– Karl Marx
pretense vs. academic self-importance
why am i on this conference steering committee again? why was i invited to join? here now embodied are all of the inescapable elements, the unrelenting components of the institutional system i still despise yet cannot escape rolled into those who are my childhood friends of sorts, the climbers who escaped their delegated poverties to join the ranks of the sanitized spaces of academia… why am...
“you know, this isn’t like singing a song and forgetting the lyrics.”
– david, in reference to the imperfection on the canvas board for his new painting
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the weekend’s accomplishments after the conference are many and varied for every member of the family. with march came the bright, crisp sunshine, birds, and blossoming everything in the desert. our backyard is turning into a little wonderland with pecan trees, a grape trellis, agave and aloe vera, cactus, and now our vegetable garden plots. though david described them as graves for giants,...
February 2009
36 posts
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i am up at a reasonable hour and excited to volunteer my morning at the NM Organics Conference that is in town. it’s so nice that its being held in las cruces this year so that people who normally wouldn’t be able to travel up to santa fe or albuquerque, or people who cannot afford hotel stays and restaurants can attend and get the benefit of seeing all of this alterNative stuff, too....
melancholy and cool, kind of bittersweet
3 am. this anna nalick song plays over and over in my bump and tumble brain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPxUxJ_ABlY) as i move the creativity from deep within my sacrum up through my fingers and only half-enjoy the inner dialogue i’m running about playing a board game tonight after work instead of watching more scrubs episodes. except that tonight is my first soccer game which is truly...
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“It’s like that Smashing Pumpkins video where they fly to the moon…”
– David, about tonight’s dinner. Wow.
realignments
i awake today with the sun and am pleased by the miracle of sleeping the whole night through. my torment manifests in my jaw, yet somehow lets my mind rest as i rise feeling very well-rested, but with jaw clenched tight despite my best efforts to lay down at night with the intention of keeping those muscles loose and relaxed… i went to see amber yesterday, a very intuitive and amazing...
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mixed-understandings, mixed-responses
i’ve been reflecting on our experiences here in santa fe at the legistlative session, from speaking directly with senators and hearing their rhetoric aimed at children, to la raza fighting for the rights of our brown sisters and brothers, both a collective experience as well as each individual different experience, from how brown one really is, through acceptance or not, to our white allies and...
it’s 5 am. i accidentally left the water on all night in the backyard. that is a terrible mistake, one i don’t usually make, but after biking home from a long day that was less-than-productive for me, and between the chicken mole and episodes of scrubs on dvd, i paced and ranted, waving my arms about wildly, shaking my head and reapeating over and over ‘i just don’t get...
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competing paradigms
as i lurch forward in fits and starts toward pointing to the systemic reasons behind all of the disillusioned and dispossessed issue areas along the border, i had an offer from the state’s health and human services department to collaborate on creating a food stamp program for citizen children of immigrant parents living in the colonias of southern NM. i paused only momentarily before...
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