tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88995243659311832132024-03-13T05:34:11.439-07:00RAEchel Running VIVA LA VIDA A Visual OdysseyNotes from the US/MX borderlands.RAEchel Runninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01604241604005624679noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899524365931183213.post-30736864451888335202019-05-01T17:42:00.002-07:002019-05-01T17:42:24.124-07:00Immigrants then from the lens of Dorothea Lange - An American Odyssey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Would anyone care about these pictures and in the future would anyone care? <span style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's still raining in the desert - just incredible! In the background is Dorthea Lange's voice and that of her granddaughter who remembers being twelve and the influence of Dorthea's work on her life; She is one of the GREAT visionaries of our times - and yet she wondered then in the 30s, 40s, will anyone in the future care about these photographs? She raised $200,000.00 for the migrant workers - American Migrants who worked the fields in our country; Many of the growers beat up their own fellow Americans who they needed to pick their food; Women had to align with men to be safe on the migrant road, and with no birth control would have many children who then died from hunger- Lange documented the Japanese intern camps in 42 -such an atrocity - A beautiful town was erased, bulldozed for a dam in California that now is in drought - Ah the beautiful vision of a mother who was called to be an artist - the challenges and the heartfelt vision of Dorthea Lange's work speaks volumes to the same issues we're facing: Immigration, migrant farm workers, women's health and safety; Yes the stories do matter and I hope this inspires other women to do their art at whatever age of life and for us to be aware of the humanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrODn0f1z0g</span></span><br />
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RAEchel Runninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01604241604005624679noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899524365931183213.post-89003367197364470222019-05-01T12:04:00.001-07:002019-05-01T12:38:04.622-07:00Border CrossRoads : Open Doors Art in Action April -June 7th 2019 Flagstaff,AZ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">April -June 7th 2019 </span></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Flagstaff, AZ </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Episcopal Church</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/sanctuary/undocumented-and-transgender-20170601"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/sanctuary/undocumented-and-transgender-20170601</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/en/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/en/</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.tucsonsamaritans.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">http://www.tucsonsamaritans.org/</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/borderlands" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">https://www.sierraclub.org/borderlands</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://mariposassinfronteras.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">https://mariposassinfronteras.org/</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://humaneborders.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">https://humaneborders.org/</span></span></a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Red dots mark the sites of over 3250 deaths in our borderlands of Arizona. <br />
Alvaro Enciso creates crosses to remember the lives lost and art from found materials on the migrant trails.<br />
<a href="https://humaneborders.org/migrant-death-mapping/">https://humaneborders.org/migrant-death-mapping/</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Driving into Flagstaff in a welcoming snow storm. <br />
The katchinas were dancing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Thank you Scott for getting us<br />
straight and <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">taking care of the details in hanging systems. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The strong work of Amy Martin's portraits of Flagstaff's 'un<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Picking up work in Tempe from photo journalist Alisa Reznick.<br />
Loading out the Mariachi and head north!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A clean slate. The effect I wanted to create was<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mexican photographer, Ammi Robales, recently published in YES<br />
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RAEchel Runninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01604241604005624679noreply@blogger.com1423 N Beaver St, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA35.2023821 -111.648512200000039.6803476000000011 -152.95710620000003 60.7244166 -70.339918200000028tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899524365931183213.post-54220127846166946692018-04-15T12:23:00.000-07:002018-04-15T14:47:04.730-07:00Art beyond borders : EL MUNDO de Paula Wittner Univerisidad de Hermosillo, Sonora Mexico<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: normal;"><b>University of Sonora , HERMOSILLO, SONORA </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: normal;">On display through May 2, 2018</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: normal;">Paula Wittner: Artist </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/borderlinegallery.html" target="_blank">https://fineartamerica.com/profiles</a></span><br />
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<b style="color: #1d2129; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />ART RAFFLE!</b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><b style="color: #1d2129; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">To benefit Yaqui Women in Hermosillo </b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Raffle to be held </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">at the closing of the exhibition. Please visit Paula Wittner's FB page or website for more visuals and further information on this special exhibition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="2nu78-0-0">A painted portrait, a timeless gesture of resignation, Columbus's Mother shakes her head at her son's mistake and the witty and sublime portrait of a lost historic figure looking back at us from Paula Wittner's rich colored canvases.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="2nu78-0-0"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="2nu78-2-0">Thank YOU to our bi-national friends, old and new and our navigator of community art and international highways, Marcella Ezzre, </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and our kind hosts from the University of Hermosillo, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Olivia Bringas. Francisco Ruiz Ledesma and Margarita Munoz. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="2nu78-0-0">We're just back state side after an AMAZING bi-national celebration of friends, family and the community of Patagonia,AZ to honor artist </span><span blockkey="2nu78" class="_247o" contentstate="q { "entityMap": undefined, "blockMap": OrderedMap { "2nu78": s { "key": "2nu78", "type": "unstyled", "text": "Just back state side after an AMAZING bi-national celebration of friends, family and the community of Patagonia,AZ to honor artist Paula Wittner's incredible body of work. Some of us traveled in a caravan by car, by bus across the US/MEXICO border. We are a Swede, A Mexicana, and A Trinidadian who call the US home. 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Wittner</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="2nu78-2-0">'s incredible artist journey and a body of work. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span data-offset-key="2nu78-2-0">Some of us fans traveled in a caravan by car and by bus across the US/MEXICO border. Earlier departures to wrangle 77 pieces of original art into a magical box straped deftly onto a trailer safely. We comprised an eccentric gaggle of 'Mericans from across the nation and from the borderland community of Patagonia, AZ. A Swede, A Mexicana, and A Trinidadian, a few Jewish people, art students, teachers, writers, retirees, and 2 generations of childhood friends who call the USA home but LOVE exploring and connecting with our Mexican neighbors. As visitors we were taken into the fold of their beautiful country and culture ; new tastes : carne seca and salsa de china; tamerindo margaritas; my first viewing of Ru Paul's Drag Revue on TV; A balmy spring evening and the families in their spring dresses were riding bikes and holding hands - historic monuments and the glow of cell phone selfie moments under the starry sky laughing, toasting and reflecting on these days and how wonderful it is to have come together for making a bridge through art. Human insight and the landscapes of lifetime, the desert is an ocean and the paintings transport our own narratives through </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the shared visions of a lifetime. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As we sat in line at the US/Mexico border we got news of National Guard being deployed on a beautiful spring day seems ludicrous. Yet the sublime experience </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of painting, history and modernity color our worldview and the art goes on.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: normal;">"The best way in my opinion to go there is to walk across the line and take a cab to the Tufesa Bus Station. The Express Deluxe Bus runs throughout the day. Its $15. Four of my friends traveled that way and said it was a breeze. When you get to Hermosillo, take a cab to the Hotel Kino Suites. Its very close to the University and also in walking distance to the plaza which is fabulous at night. Don't wait too lon</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: normal;">g...as the saying goes.</span></i></div>
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RAEchel Runninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01604241604005624679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899524365931183213.post-82602229317569167972016-11-04T17:53:00.000-07:002016-11-04T17:53:39.041-07:00Sierra Club Borderlands Presents: Lens on the Border: 4 Photographers Creative Response<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sierra Club Borderlands : The Historic Y Thru Dec 14, 2016</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lens on the Border: 4 Photographers Creative Response: </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/borderlands/photo-exhibit" target="_blank">Sierra Club Borderlands Presents: </a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Krista Schlyer. Raechel Running. Khaled Jarrar. Bill Hatcher</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/a-terrible-beauty/Content?oid=7322934" target="_blank">NOV 4th 2016 Tucson Weekly Review: </a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.008px;">View exhibition upstairs, downstairs and main lobby of The Historic Y, 738 N 5th Avenue, Tucson</span><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></strong></div>
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<strong>Thursday, October 20, 7pm</strong> – Opening reception, meet & greet with the artists. Author and photographer <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://kristaschlyer.com/" style="color: #009ee0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Krista Schlyer</span></a></span> will show images and read from her National Outdoor Book Award-winning <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2013/11/author-photographer-sierra-club-volunteer-wins-national-outdoor-book-award" style="color: #009ee0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Continental Divide: Wildlife, People and the Border Wall</span></a></span></em>.</div>
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<i><strong>Monday, October 24, 7pm</strong> – Multi-talented visual artist<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://raechel-runningvivalavida.blogspot.com/2012/10/nepantla-visual-odyssey-beyond-borders.html" style="color: #009ee0; text-decoration: none;">Raechel Running</a></span> shares the people who have influenced her lens on borderlands unity rather than separation. Her portraits and <span class="floatleft">vivid images show the Native peoples of the region, archeologists, Mata Ortiz potters, horse traditions and contemporary cultural connections to the landscape all united by the histories and geography. Her lens weaves Grand Canyon to Copper Canyon showing us how we are connected in stories and symbols before the political boundary of the wall.</span></i></div>
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<i>Raechel's border work is in the permanent collection at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France and her work and collected instruments of the Raramuri musicians of Copper Canyon are on permanent display at Musical Instrument Museum Collection in Scottsdale, AZ.</i></div>
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<strong>Thursday, October 27, 7pm</strong> – Much of <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-khaled-jarrar-ladder-mexico-border-wall-20160406-column.html" style="color: #009ee0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Khaled Jarrar’s</span></a></span> film, sculpture and public artwork focuses on the imposing, concrete separation barrier between his home community of Ramallah and Jerusalem: He sculpted a volleyball from a piece of it, he created a visual crack in it, and he painted a rainbow on it. Khaled will share his experiences making art from barriers in his homeland, as well as on the U.S.-Mexico border.</div>
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<strong>Thursday, November 3, 7pm</strong> – National Geographic Creative photographer <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.billhatcher.com/Stories/Conservation-in-Mexico-/1" style="color: #009ee0; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Bill Hatcher</span></a></span> is best known for stunning nature photography and thrilling adventure shots. Bill has spent much of his personal and professional life in borderlands around the world, and will showcase some of his best works from national parks and wild areas along the U.S.-Mexico border.</div>
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Refreshments provided. A $10 donation is suggested (nobody will be turned away), proceeds benefit the Borderlands program of the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter.</div>
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The exhibit will be on display to the public October 20 through December 14, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. Free.</div>
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RAEchel Runninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01604241604005624679noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899524365931183213.post-36987334925038761272015-08-20T06:24:00.000-07:002015-08-20T06:24:00.476-07:00Under Pressure: Stages : With Kate Edwards <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I can barely find the words to comprehend all of what these boxes contain and have meant so much to me ; This photo sequence expresses the evolution from OMG ! overwhelming to moving through, finding the zen spot and then busting on through to the the other side ! Up and through Baby!! I still have boxes to wrangle but poco a poco the zen moment is here in the chaos all along. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I think I have may have a cigar box obsession. I do have a cigar box obsession - now we'll have to turn it to art!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was the final day before we made the boxes go away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes the muse leads the way out of the maze just like in mythology ; Here's to the beauty and fun </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A nice send off I'd say ; ) and off to new beginnings!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank you Katie for being an inspiration and your sunny self ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <span style="text-align: center;">Its been a process to say the least to move 50 years of life from the top of the mountain down to the Sonoran desert lands. Angels, muses and interns come in many forms. It so happens I've known her since she was just a sparkle and swinging in a tutu between bites of pizza and pepperoni, beers and Johnny Cash when we were all younger and enjoyed porchin it in the evenings at Alpine Pizza. </span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her and I landed in Tucson just around the same time and we were destined to meet again. Kate's grandma still teaches at Tucson High and I was pleasantly surprised to learn Grandma also had the lovely Phyllis Hogan of Wintersun as a student when Ms Phylly was herself in high school back in the day. All I can is it's a small world wonder how we end up where we do and still have hometown connections. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am eternally grateful for the team of friends who helped move me through this process; Thanks to the produce guys for a beautiful collection at Frys, and Baby Bashas on the Hill </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> that helped in our cause. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Apple and banana boxes were perfect for fitting not too big, not too small but just right. </span></div>
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RAEchel Runninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01604241604005624679noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899524365931183213.post-52371995020384432352015-08-19T06:00:00.000-07:002015-08-19T06:00:01.907-07:00Wintersun : Summer 2015 Hey Joe photo shoot.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the early month of may I did a photo shoot for Wintersun ; We've been collaborating for years ; each time I grow as an image maker - co -creator - The vibe to be cool and positive ; A fusion of classic cultural jewelry and contemporary plus Men like good skincare too ; ) It was the first time shooting in the old</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1187428204" href="https://www.facebook.com/flagstaff.photocenter" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: x-large; text-decoration: none;">Flagstaff Photocenter</a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">since it had closed two years ago; my dad walked by</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-size: large;"> and we hugged - we played with light - I was on a cooking job out in Gods Country and switching gears to fashion was a mind bender ; ) then back to the ranch to cook din din for the boys . What remains at the essence is the original streets of Flagstaff and the wonderful people whom we've meet over the years in the downtown, the currents still remains inspirational. So good to create back in the ol' hometown and walk the streets and back alleys again. Asquali Mamichi, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1093750352" href="https://www.facebook.com/phyllis.hogan.5" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Phyllis Hogan</a> and Joey for being our inspiring muse! Stay tune for more art and skincare from the heart of ol historic downtown!</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">A grove of aspen trees grows from a single seedling; a vast root system spreads under the forest floor, sending up white tree trunks over the course of centuries. Similarly, Joseph Jaraczewski built a supportive root system across North America. Born in southeastern Wisconsin to a Polish and Filipino heritage, his family eventually moved to Northern Arizona, a land of mesquite, ponderosa pine, and adventure. As a musician and lyricist, Joseph has travelled extensively through the Western United States. Joseph is currently attending the University of Oregon, pursuing a Master's in Sustainable Business Management with the hope of working in the agricultural industry.</span></i><br />
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RAEchel Runninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01604241604005624679noreply@blogger.com0Plateau Point, Grand Canyon National Park, Plateau Point Trail, Grand Canyon Village, AZ 86023, USA36.092854 -112.1170096999999810.570819500000002 -153.42560369999998 61.614888500000006 -70.808415699999983tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899524365931183213.post-79162693473293865952015-03-09T10:22:00.000-07:002015-03-09T11:39:43.626-07:00All the Pretty Horses and the Vaqueras Bravas!! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The important part of the background of the Colonial Spanish Horses is that they are indeed Spanish. These are descendants of the horses that were brought to the New World by the Conquistadors, and include some feral, some rancher, some mission, and some native American strains.....These horses are a direct remnant of the horses of the Golden Age of Spain, which type is now mostly or wholly extinct in Spain. The Colonial Spanish horses are therefore a treasure chest of genetic wealth from a time long gone. D. Phillip Sponenberg, DVM, PhD</span></i></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Eva's horses are the Colonial Spanish Barb horse. They were the noble and courageous war horse of the Berbers of North Africa and later the Spanish Conquistadors. They were favored by royal courts throughout Europe. The Spanish Barb shares a direct linage to the horse traditions of Spain and to Mexico’s Haciendos and Vaquero traditions. The Barbs' compact size, their great lung capacity, and agileness on the rocks made them the perfect companion for long distant explorations into the unknown frontier. Eva's strain of the Spanish Barb came in 1687 with the </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Jesuit missionary Eusebio Kino, "The Padre on Horseback." Kino rode over 50,000 miles exploring, mapping and saving souls, establishing a network of twenty four missions and ranches in the northern frontier of New Spain, now the borderlands of </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Mexico and the southwestern United States.</span></div>
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Desert Caballero Museum, Wickenberg, AZ spring 2015<br />
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A CRUEL BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce</div>
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The ecstasy sandwich of seeing your hard work and passion in print for the first time. From the lens and life of Eugene Smith. It is not unfamiliar to the great writers and photographers. Things get misconstrued. . The life we learn out in the field is often presented differently in editorial form.You give it your best and still have to do the work believing maybe a few photographs can help change the way people see the world and value life. Much gets lost in translation and you just got to keep to the doing of the thing; your work, your expression and follow the story lines.<br />
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RAEchel Runninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01604241604005624679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899524365931183213.post-67547219204628293232014-06-16T10:59:00.001-07:002014-06-16T11:49:15.972-07:00Overlander from Down Under in Barrio Viejo with Mark Shea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sometimes it takes a visitor to help you see your world anew and learn more about the place called home. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The history of Barrio Viejo unfolds and takes ahold. I am learning even more about this compelling shrine just a few blocks away from where I live. It still captivates me just as it did the very first time friends Keith and Carli walked me through their world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes it is hot in the desert this time of year. I've heard if you're a local you're not suppose to talk about the heat. I am still settling into new ground. In our little pocket of our barrio Viejo my vecina(neighbor) Vanda Gerhart hosted fellow digital story teller </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mark Shea,</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> an Aussie global explorer in his post Vegas recovery. As they say, what happened in Vegas stays in Vegas or you can check out the videos. They joined me for my 49th birthday Mexican dinner sharing the finer detailers of Greyhound travel and stories of far away lands; food;biology;history; Irish immigration;mesquite harvesting. The local history of the El Tiraditio, the Shrine of the Unforgiven caught fire his imagination.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next thing I knew </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">we were standing </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in a 100+ degrees on revered ground making a video.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mark has since discovered in less than 24 hours more details about the event of the shrine and fleshes out the story far more than the plaque could ever explain. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After our </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">interview I thought of more things I would have like to say in less than two minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Tiradito still brings me great hope and comfort to many people who come to visit.He is perhaps like an old friend to share your troubles and stories to. For such a tragic event the shrine of the Unforgiven offers an eternal refuge of compassion for people of all walks of life and beliefs. People in Tucson gathered at the shrine after <a href="http://azstarnet.com/news/local/mourners-gather-by-noon-at-giffords-tucson-office/article_bd336240-b443-51c9-8ee3-b5ab0edecf38.html" target="_blank">the tragic shooting and miraculous recovery of Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords</a> made international headlines and contributed to the dialogue of the ongoing debate about gun control in America. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The love and empathy felt here in this ancient altar of adobe comprises years of devotion. His Spirit and a cast of other Divine intermediaries, saints and personal totems create an ambiance of reflection that the veils between worlds isn't too far especially where love is concerned. Even in middle of the day I am blinded by such tender expressions of love and a much larger faith standing under the hot desert sun. The old adobe wall looks like it is weeping. St. Jude, St. Francis, Our Lady, the photos of family members, beloved strangers all are gathered in the notes, flowers and dust of the seasons. The salt of tears and the wax of so many candles over the years seep through the wall and seal the ground. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">How nice it was to meet a fellow traveler and share a part of Tucson that still captivates us with mystery.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In less than 48 hours we shared my 49th birthday dinner. We were both inspired to see Mark's social media process and each had our ah ha moments. He blew us away with his media savvy. In less than two hours a story idea was locked and loaded at Vanda's work table. He Shot it. Edited it. Compress it. Upload it and share it with his followers - bing bang boom! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Next thing I knew, they were off in the opposite direction of the setting sun heading east with Vanda at the helm to get him closer to his next destination. From the roadtrip notes looks like he's somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the wild west of New Mexico. Closer but still has further to go. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gracias Mark for sharing some of our local southwest history with your readers. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Have a great odyssey gathering stories from across the USA! A Dios Bendiga!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stay tune for the interview with my vecina Vanda Gerhart and her work documenting international food traditions and cultures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For more information on Tucson's Barrio Viejo visit the <a href="http://www.lapilita.com/">Pilita Museum </a>next door or have a meal at <a href="http://elminutocafe.com/">El Minuto Cafe</a>.</span><br />
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RAEchel Runninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01604241604005624679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899524365931183213.post-12551900016659625782014-04-03T20:42:00.001-07:002014-04-03T21:33:47.094-07:00NOTHING PERSONAL : JAMES BALDWIN & RICHARD AVEDON<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I often reflect on this essay Nothing Personal when I need a shot of faith to renew my conviction to see the world through a camera and aspire for mastery of words like Baldwin. I wonder what they were like in high school, what they discussed and they found each other.<br />
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It was great to discover these little videos looking at books and also find the original essay.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The original wall has since been replaced with the costs varying from one million to twelve million dollars per mile. What IF this investment were put to education, healthcare for families and vets, and creating a humane solution to our immigration problem ? I stare up and down and look both ways and see not security but tragedy for miles. And really are we any more 'secure ' ? It doesn't make sense. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist's and poets are the senses of our culture. They invoke our eyes and hearts to feel and become aware. Art inspires us to share our stories and experiences.. It is with dedication Stefan has looked for the light in the dark politics and reality of the our current border wars. Families are divided as people seek economic stability. People continue to risk their lives by the thousands as the worlds they knew have been effected by the Central American wars of the 80s, NAFTA; </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sadly human trafficking of women and girls continues and the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the current war on drugs proves futile. Yet the colors and the strong messages written on the walls and voiced in strokes of light reflect the resilient Spirit and the hope of the dreamers in spite the madness of war and walls. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been really exciting to be apart of his Border Artists project. I am inspired by the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> work of the other artists involved. What we all have in common is sharing our response to our time in history. I look forward to seeing the exhibit and hope his work can be shown locally. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">They don't make many men like Santiago Barnaby anymore. He was a rare one. Rouge scholar, scientist, anthropologist, artist, philanthropic in his efforts to help contribute and sustain the Raramuri culture of Chihuahua's Copper Canyon. Santiago was a great story teller, cultural ambassador and my guide on my collection trip for the Musical Instrument Museum in 2011. We spent 10 days documenting the traditional musicians of the canyon. Guide, great friend and God Father to many Tarahumara children. He helped build schools and sponsored ceremonies for the community. He was kind, generous and a genuine culture keeper. In ancient times there were the Sacred Traders ; the Puchtecas, who travelled the sacred trade routes of the Americas and these same mountains and canons bringing their seeds of change, the gift of song and ceremonies for rain along the way. People danced and shared their stories from other lands. Sharing the protocals of friendship spanning thousands of years.</span></div>
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A guide is a photographer’s best friend in the field. They help you see what is essential and important. Their reputation, trust with the people offers invaluable insight to help us record our work. <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Santiago</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">helped me see and love the people of the canon. So much changes with each year; the media wars continue; people stopped visiting like they used too because of the fear. Still the ceremonies are offered; The sweet long note of a hand made violin lingers; the driving tuba and accordion and deep carino, the canto of the Soul of El Hijo Del Pueblo pumps life through beating hearts. Yes my heart skipped a beat knowing a rare kind of man as Santiago, a modern Puchteca has left this world. We are all enriched all the more for the love he shared for a people, a time and a place.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">He taught us</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">much.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Spencer and Emi Mac Callum brought him as one of my first visitors to Casa Azul in Pueblo Viejo my first spring living in Casas Grandes. I fed him green chile and we sat around the table sharing stories. He knew the people in my father and Bennett's Tarahumara photographs. He named the people of the portraits that hung on my living room walls made in the early 80s. Faces I have known from archives of photographs. In slides, in Black and white fiber prints in the darkroom, in color prints made at Richard Jacksons's photo lab; RED, and dark strong faces. Fat baby cheeks. Colors and prayers. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Santiago joined the Spirit world on Sunday January 25, 2014 rising like a phoenix to help light our way to understand better and hold dear these people and way of life and cherish what is rare ,beautiful and good. He passed away in Montana staying warm in the cold. I hope he is now free in the warm cosmic glow like the long ray of sun down the canyon. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">"I always have to remind myself that they haven't vanished, they just went Home earlier than I to a place where postcards come in the form of dreams. As Bobby says to Christina as he dies in the storm in the film The Perfect Storm: "There are no goodbyes, only Love."</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thank you Kathyrn for holding space to share our lost of our great compadre and for sharing the joy of meeting you all these years since Santiago introduced me to your writing that cold winter day in Pueblo Viejo on his way to Tucson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As of October 10st, we've raised over $1700!!! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Well I am completely awed, amazed for all the support for my sponsorship for the Rancho Feliz BIGGER THAN BORDERS RIDE. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Words are powerful.We are often left speechless. When they are held captive they demand to be heard. They inspire and break our hearts. Words can be silenced. They flow like a river. Sometimes they run dry and then come pouring out in an unexpected torrential flood. They wage for space inside our heads. Less is sometimes more. Poets wield them like swords. We often don't know the words inside of another person and even our own selves. Sometimes we communicate without them. We feel and experience life and at times we can't find the right ones. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Editing takes up my time and keeping a pulse on social networking and the world I glean my FB posts and Yahoo news to weed out the mundane and check out the pulse of world. It's stunning how much I get to know about things I don't really am not interested in. Like the media's obsession with people who are 'celebraties' so I've heard but have no idea why they're famous or what they do; why do I have to dig through pages of it; in the junk mail; in the grocery aisle; on the web; at the gas station; I am almost compelled to visualize without conscious their image; a dancing menagerie of " beautiful' tortured people who look freaking great! they also seem to get in trouble with the law a LOT; they know how to Twerk and have documented baby bumps. I am also amazed at all the football players getting paid way more than our teachers and sadly they still end up beating up their beautiful girlfriends, or killing someone. Daily news. The noise builds and then there's the Fence. The pinche Fence. The fronteria. A multimillion dollar exercise in futility - laying to waste people's resources, the land and dividing the history and fate of countries. Most of all wasting the energy of so many dreams for a better life. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I see these sad reports EVERYDAY about weird shit that happens to women and girls and boys. "What IS Going on ?? " as Marvin Gaye laments. Are you noise / WAR Weary ?? Some days I feel I could curse and scream out loud and I do my best to compose my intention to go light a candle and ask for some divine guidance. Then in the midst of the sshiittt there's these little gleaming lights. collectively the glimmer of hope stands out really shining bright. I have gleaned such wisdom from my friends FB posts these past couple years following their lines of interest, I have been inspired, enlightened, amazed, appalled and truly amazed. They've made me laugh and brought tears to my eyes. So it is; there are somedays when a message reveals itself to you and makes you smile. A piece of trash on the street has a message. A bag in a tree takes on a new metaphor. You swear that image of the St Jude just winked at you. The quality of the light causes pause. A gesture of a man in repose with his shirt looks up at the mountain like an Adonis along the river's shore. It's such a picture perfect moment but I don't want to disturb his peace. Do you ever find it strange how certain random stories seem to fit into the message of the day? Like a sign from above. Just like when I see a roadrunner cross my path I think of Juan Quezada telling me it means good luck! You just know the Spirit of life is speaking to you like those random songs in foreign languages even if you don't understand the words. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is stuff I'm airing out in my head as I train for my riding the 50 miles in the <a href="http://www.perimeterbicycling.com/cochise-cycling-classic/" target="_blank">Cochise County Cycling Classic. </a>and the <a href="http://www.ranchofeliz.com/index.php/bigger-than-borders" target="_blank">Rancho Feliz Bigger Than Borders</a> post ride Fandango. There are so many endings and new beginnings I can barely keep up the sequence of the rapid fire changes in my life. I am not alone and the words crowd my head. So many people are in the current and Lordisma knows where we're heading. A flood of images flows in a stream of memories. From what I've seen of the world there are more people who want to make the world a better place. Even if they're one in a million. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another good reason I ride is I am also thinking about the resiliency of the human spirit. Even when it's hard I feel I could cry as I climb the mountain that is the metaphor of life; alone we must travel each one of us. We are compelled to meet the challenge for our own reasons. I have also been working on being conscious of gratitude and to say GRACIAS and BUENAS DIAS. The air is sweet after the rain and the dark of the morning cool in the desert. The only reprieve. The breeze. The creosote. Looking for the river's path after the rains. It is good to see the river's path and look out so far across the valley. It looks mystical and surely I am learning it is. Ancient people's lookout from this place 1000's of years ago. Today a viejito, an older grandpa, is wearing a AZ Wildcats baseball cap. He picks up last nights party trash and puts it into one of many trash cans not because it's his job but because he loves this mountain. His family is from Sonora - ranchers and farmers del Oeste he gestures with his chin and looks south and west with crystal blue eyes. Todo cambio... asi es. Asi es. The sun is behind a bank of clouds making a majestic display. I share my dried mangos with him; looking out we admire the valley each imagining farmlands and times when the Santa Cruz river ran. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The words of the poets and writers stories come to mind when I ride. Randomly I listen to my ancient ipod from 2007. I have Jack Keroac's On the Road read by Will Patton; Old Mexican love songs and Flagtown Punk Rock gets my amp on between a honky tonk and Chopin and Cher song ; I think of all the stories I now carry in me thanks to the words that were poured into me telling me of peoples ordeals in the desert climbing and climbing and walking through the brutal heat. I am just going for a ride on this cool and beautiful morning through a sleeping neighborhood; from the barrio to the mansions on the hill. Jesus! How AM I going to do this?? I laugh at myself. I comfort and cojole. Next rock. Next tree. Yes you can! Flashback 5 years old and the Little Train that Could. Flash back that beautiful girl in the barrio living in a shack. Some one loving on her. Reading to her. Pull my knees in. Breath. Breath of fire. Get that negative crap out. Now breath in this beautiful morning! flashback Meeting yourself on the matt.Yoga class. Be like a strawberry and wear your heart on the outside. Tap into the BIGGER energy. I give this practice to honor those who are helping others. Children's faces flash before me bright eyes; dreams gleaming! Go further. Ride it like you run the river. Hold that line -Set a point and go for it. Jesus!!! It's Beautiful in the morning dark and this is kicking my ass! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A child on the edge of chaos sings his heart out into the world with a gift that inspires those who are suffering around him. Music is what keeps him calm. I discovered this little clip on Shelterbox.org and heard the powerful voice of 11 year old Delan, which means 'Heart'. As a Syrian refugee his beloved instrument was damaged at the border crossing. I realize again I do not know anything about Syria; I know of the ancient history and that we are balancing between war and some alternative. This interview imparts a window into a world that is covered in headlines and visions of war. The photo is compelling and I can feel I am there in the refugee camp. I can feel the Soul of the people. The music reached down deep and resonated deep within me when I heard his song. I wish I could hear the whole recording. His songs are so powerful the government has prevented him from attending his music school.Yet he plays into the night for the people his own compositions. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wrote earlier about how we are inundated, saturated with the tragedy of sexual abuse/ violence in our world. It's a case of "they're" much worse over "there" as if what's happening right here in not just as disturbing. Sadly abuse is Everywhere. It knows no borders. Yet these brave women are taking their place back in the world as beautiful survivors and warriors reclaiming their light from a dark place. I was overwhelmed with emotions as I read and looked into their tender faces and let the honest truth sink in. I too share space with the survivors and for this reason too I ride. We are free to recreate ourselves in our own time. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have loved writing letters all my life. I used to circled words in books before I knew how to write. I was anxious to write or color. A deep desire to communicate. I can still remember my 1st grade teacher Mrs. Mackler taking extra time to help me write left handed. I have had pen pals through out my life and participated with great zeal in the art of passing notes on tiny pieces of paper folded into intricate origami. These images were created in my friend, art educator Meg Bitner's ESL Class at the same high school we attended while growing up. She had her students do their profiles and creative writing and I combined them with their portraits in photoshop. I really think it was a beautiful collaboration. I have been inspired by the work of Jose' Antonio Abreu and his Global Youth Orchestra movement. If we nurture our young people and light a fire within them they will shine. The importance of art, music, inclusiveness and the tools to be able to express oneself. Beauty is also a human right. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">1ST training day. 5 miles and like Rosanna Anna Dana said, ' I thought I was gonna die! " but I didn't. And as the saying goes, whatever doesn't kill you or breaks your heart can in deed make you stronger.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I traded one of my photos for this bike I found on Craigslist.com. OK I know now it's a tank but it has rolled steady! It has most certainly carried me to see and experience new worlds<br />
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LOVE AND HAPPINESS: </div>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/16/happiness-habits-of-exuberant-human-beings_n_3909772.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular" target="_blank">The habits of Extremely Happy People </a></div>
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RAEchel Runninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01604241604005624679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899524365931183213.post-81559262689152022632013-09-05T18:20:00.000-07:002013-09-05T18:20:24.157-07:006th Annual 2013 Color Awards: Surprise! Honorable Mention Award<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These days I look at photography mostly online, in photo books and on Facebook.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I also keep a pulse on what's happening in photography from posts on www.aphotoeditor.com. Last time I was home packing up at Running's studio. In my stack of mail I found a little certificate for placing honorable mention in the 6th Annual 2013 Color Awards. Interesting to see the work of my fellow colleagues. I often wonder how anyone finds you. Sometimes I enter contests and roll the dice. Often you never hear back but every blue moon you hit your mark. I thought this was one of my personal best from the border. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surprise! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Spike the Border image was taken in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. . </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Canadian Woman's Volleyball team went to Mexico to volunteer with NGO </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.RanchoFeliz.com/">www.RanchoFeliz.com</a>.</span><br />
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RAEchel Runninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01604241604005624679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899524365931183213.post-3242182990035129032013-09-02T09:10:00.000-07:002013-09-02T09:21:35.490-07:00A family portrait : Seven years later. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a photographer it brought me much joy when the kids brought out their portraits. We did our best to recreate the original portraits - their idea ; ) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hung my portable backdrop which has been my traveling studio these past few years. I shake it out and hang it up and violia ! Photo studio ! We were crunched for time but what a moment it was. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love doing family portraits over the years, watching the evolution and family changes. Each person growing into</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and looking for photos and pushing myself to make the miles. Other days I think of the Vecinos riders riding on the other side of the border; they truly inspire me to make the distance. These two stories for Tailwinds are examples of how bike riding enriches lives as individuals and as a community. It is certainly changing mine. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;"><i>Take Me to the River </i>was one my first editorial pieces I wrote since moving to Tucson for <a href="http://www.perimeterbicycling.com/" target="_blank">Perimeter Bicycling Association of America.</a> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;">It was my first winter in the Tucson desert and I was thinking of spring days down in the Grand Canyon.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;">My mom's longtime friend Sally Valenzuela, heads up the marketing for PBAA had kindly invited me to a "welcome to Tucson" lunch. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I had grown up with Sally's daughters in Flagstaff and w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;">e hadn't seen each other in years.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;"> I had been out fishing for graphic design work that morning following a lead from Craig's list and happened to have</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;"> my portfolio in the Mariachi van. Sally shares a love for photography, Mexico, art and community service and</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> suggested I share my work with her colleagues at Perimeter and encouraged me to submit work for TAILWINDS Magazine.</span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;">I had begun a new chapter of life in Tucson. I wrote</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;">sitting at my new desk, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;">at my new, old adobe casita in Barrio Viejo. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;">I am still adjusting to the rhythms of my new life and like writing, and river running looking for those lines to follow, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;">it's been a process.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;">What words and what images </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;">tell the story best ? With my Gemini nature and love of odd tangents it's hard for me to choose.</span></span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;">It was funny to me because after living in Mexico for the past five years documenting horse traditions and every day life in Casas Grandes region of Chihuahua, I had an archive of photographs of people in cowboy hats but I didn't have any stock photos of athletic images of people running, bike riding, or swimming in an urban environment. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;">What I had to draw from was my experiences of traveling down river.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-weight: normal;">I have included the long and edited versions I wrote for Tailwinds Magazine June 2013 issue. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">The inspiration began with my memories of Taki's journal notes. I was struck by her story and love for the Grand Canyon, a place she never visited in her brief life. Yet her life and the treasure of her words are at home amongst the layers of time's passage. Her presence within the canyon has touch many people over the years; worn pages flutter in your hands dusted with sand; notes scribbled, inspired words of gratitude from other visitors who somehow heard of the secret treasure and climbed the same rocky outcropping to ponder the tender well worn pages. It was the section of the story that I thought was key but it got cut. But without having written that part the story would have taken a different line. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I look forward to re-editing the story for a longer piece in the future. I also wanted to share some of the other photographs I chose for the story. </span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1d3b68; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.perimeterbicycling.com/blog/2013/05/17/the-journey-essay-take-me-to-the-river-2/" target="_blank">Perimeter Bicycling Blog: May 2013</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have heard it said of the Grand Canyon, it is a natural wonder, a religious experience, and is endeared as a collective living room we share with our fellow travelers. How old will you be before you actually sleep under a canopy of stars? The summer I turned twelve I went down on 21 day Grand Canyon youth river trip. My family was separating, I was entering the gawky and awkward teenage years. We did solo overnight hikes in the side canyons, listened to our boatman read philosophy books, quoting cowboy poets and the ol’ time river runners who followed the call of the wild and unknown lands out loud as we learnt how to read the water and face the waves of smaller riffles and rapid. I rode through Lava Falls with my feet in the air holding on so I wouldn’t get washed out of the boat. Since that first trip over thirty five years ago I have met many people over the years working as a river cook on commercial and scientific expeditions. My brother JP, a Hatch boatman has always said the kitchen is the heart of camp, the place where people find home and sustenance upon the unknown shores in a harsh and gorgeous landscape in an other worldly place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">With a dip of an oar, or a coyote glance downstream, a guide’s answer is vaguely humble and remain in grace with the river Gods. It could happen to a rookie or a seasoned veteran. It’s a given, it’s not IF but when it may happen. “There are those who have or those who will. " And like life who hasn’t had a bad run now and then? Maybe it’s the thrill of the whitewater, the bucket list experience; I doubt people expect the effects of the long quiet stretches that lie on either side of the rapids after they’ve returned home to world above. Just as your above the rapid you’re through it and then your right above it again. It’s what stories are made of and no matter the run it’s in the recovery and getting back into the current that counts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Many years ago one of my boatman told me the story of hidden treasure located in the inner canyon gorge. He looked up the high cliffs and nodded with his head l as we motored on by. Years went by and I still wondered about that story and a treasure of words. One late afternoon we pulled into the camp below the cliff where he had nodded up too. After setting up camp a couple of us walked up the cliff face. As it were told,we discovered the ammo can holding the gathered pages , ‘ The Journal of Tiki Galt 1951-1971”. Tiki’s dream to visit Grand Canyon never was realized as she left the sweet world at the age of twenty after a long struggle with Hodgkins Disease. Yet her young life and wisdom beyond years has touched many and her journal still remains a mystery. Just as the Ancient cultures have left their signs in pot sherds and pictographs continue to inspire more questions than answers. Who am I? Where are we from ? Where are we going? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.gcrg.org/bqr/pdf/23-4.pdf">Tiki Galt: Grand Canyon Boatman Quarterly http://www.gcrg.org/bqr/pdf/23-4.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Thousands of visitors camp along the shore but the only signs are their footprints in the sand. No trash, not even a cigarette butt or one plastic bag. People learn to care for one another and cultivate kinship. There is a trust of the guiding presence of a hand reaching out to help one another, across a cliff face, fording a rushing stream and righting a capsized boat. People’s faces and the masks we wear in the world on top are discarded, become weather worn, sun kissed, with each day the light in their eyes grows brighter. I have seen people break down from dehydration; and their fear of the unknown and from the sheer profound beauty of it all. Some people know it will be their last and only trip on the bucket list because of their aliments, cancer and age. Other’s will come back again- one more run or a hundred more. I remember one woman who asked shyly if it would be ok to stand naked under a waterfall after her battle with cancer. Our group allowed her the privacy to commune with nature’s gift. When she returned back to the group she was radiant with tears of joy in her eyes. Families and friends, long time married folk and young love mark the seasons of the years amid conversations with stones and water in the deep shadows and by firelight. People celebrate, dance, trade life stories, and make new friends as each day people overcome their fears of water, heights, death and question their preconceived ideas and discover and explore the depths of their own lives. No matter the age or status in life the river teaches us humility and like Kafka’s poem Ithaca, the journey is the destination. Courage is grace under pressure and people experience what it means to live fully within the arms of nature’s harsh and wondrous beauty with a new attention to the details and discover their own place with in it. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The rodeo soundtrack goes with the landscape. A whole lot of country, classic Mariachi, a driving tuba, and a little rock n roll spiced with some cinematic spegetti western like The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly dusted on top. There is nothing like a classic western. Youth from every part of the world wanted to grow up and be a cowboy. With the new release of “The Lone Ranger”, the movies feed our need for heros with masked, horse riding cowboys who ride into our collective imagination and the black and white and surreal cinimea and save the day.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It’s the middle of the 21st century, summertime, a late afternoon in a small town. The desert winds have calmed down. A parade of pickup trucks line up through the open gates of the local arena. Horse trailers, double cabs, dusty put together pickup trucks held together with bailing wire and political stickers; an image of our Lady presides over bales of hay and saddles which contrast next to the new, bright n shiny, freshly washed latest turck model. Nortenos and country western music blast from tinted truck windows as they back up in reverse. Windows roll down, doors open and tailgates drop. Men unfurl their legs and pour out of the backseat. Their lean, hard as nails and nimble bodies creak out the kinks from the road wherever the rodeo circuit has lead them in Mexico’s wildwest country. License plates represent a transnational cultural love for rodeo. During the Super Bull Grande rodeo events, cowboys from Las Cruces, New Mexico, Arizona, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango unload their bags of gear patinaed with the faraway dust of the other desertlands, ranches and rodeo arenas as faraway as Guatamala and Brazil. Everyone is here for a chance to celebrate the sport of rodeo. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In these times we could use another hero. Maybe he looks like a rodeo cowboy. The mythic Cowboy of the west continues to fuel the imagination of the world. He is a man who puts himself at risk to carry on an age of tradtion of man and spirit intertwined with the animas that offers the rites of spring and summer’s harvest and life sustaining rains for all to reap the bounty of the earth. He is a man of dust. An adventurer, a lone rider who rolls in like a moviestar. He carries our heart on his sleeve, rides tall in the saddle out into the sunset in a blaze of dust. He is born from children’s and explorer’s dreams; someone who makes something out of nothing; risks it all for a new opportunity in the roll of the dice, he tries his luck. He rides between the forces of good and darkness, aligned with or against the elements of time. His world is beyond the fence, he knows no boundaries and lives life on his own terms. a man who values freedom; He is a wanderer and a stranger in a new land. He dusts the road off and the cowboy steps out and becomes an icon.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">More pickup trucks roll in. Horses are groomed. Men start a fire to cook carnitas. Coolers of ice cold tecate serve as temporary seating. Dust rises. Flies buzz around. Horses snort and the cattle are restless in their pens on the otherside of the lot. One can smell the aroma of chile.The rodeo stand surrounds the arena begins to swell with people. It offers shade under the hot sun and dark rain clouds moving in the distance. People look out and the cowboys sqint into the sun setting in the west. The spirit of the crowds swells with friends greeting eachother and it’s another summer’s day, celebrating with the compadres, family, the fruits of the land and commaradarie. Vendors move in the deep shadows of the heat of the day. They ply their wares selling sweet and salty and spicy snacks ; ice cold drinks and the beer flows offered from the sweet smiles of the Tecate girls with their manicured fingers dripping with the icy wettness glittering like dimonds in the sun. Over the loudspeaker Norteno and Country music blend rhythms of American Country, rock and Norteno brass like the icecold Mechilada drink of Clamato and beer over ice, chile, salt and a healthy dose of fresh lime. Another One Bites the Dust. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Behind the empty chutes, truckbeds are lined up against the outside fence for easy access over the 2 metered wall. Saddles, vests, and chaps are tossed over the wall and the sides of trucks. Boots, lucky shirts, a beloved rosary are selected. Grandfathers dress their sons; wrist guards are wrapped and daughters groom their horses as parents look on; Two pairs of hands and generations of families who have a keen sense for horsemanship know the ritual With each brush of the comb, the handling of a bridle, the breeding of horses and the cattle business, the sport and the cultural traditions are pass down celebrating horsemanship and community. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Contemporary rodeo shows were made famous by America’s Wild Bill’s West show featured many Mexican cowboys. The Mexican south of the border showmanship added the bling into Rodeo style. Binational cowboys cross borders to perform and compete in both countries.</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 12.3px/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Ponciano Diaz, a young man from Puebla, became a national hero of Mexican bull-fighting added the Mexican Corrida famous in America and Europe. In 1922 at Madison Gardens, in New York City, Tex Austin held the first rodeo elevating the Wild West Show as a bonafide sporting event. Of the 10 orginal events at Madison Square gardens, five remain standard ; Bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc riding, bull riding, steer wrestling and calf roping all which remain as the Professional Rodeo PRCA anual events held every December in Las Vegas, Nevada. The art of rodeo has been taken to new heights with larger prizes, and noterarty on the professional athlete circuit.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Guermillo Americo Herrera Corona, Promotora de Rodeos, director and Federacion Mexicana De Rodeo, Presidente, rode on horses before he knew how to walk. Raised within a family charro tradition, Guermillo has been competing in rodeos for over thirty years. “I’ve been a bull fighter, pick up man, roper, bull dogger, judge, stock contractor, promotor, and clinician.” He has also been a National champion, and has promoted the best rodeos in the Republic for over seventeen years. “ Rodeo is a chain between the recent past and the rushing future. Let’s keep these beautiful traditions that keeps families together and a community strong through preserving this way of life. There is a dicho “ ‘Las veredas quitaran, pero La Querencia cunando. " You can erase the roads, but never the querencia.' " </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">It’s early on a sunday afternoon. There is a calm and an air of expectancy. The arena is void of any disturbance excpect for the dust blowing from the wind. A calm before the storm. It’s another day, another dollar, another bull, and one more show to go.Within the ring, a man and a bull; around them the clowns and the vaqueros; above them the growing crowd of families; the community; the valley; the mountain and the traditions.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The sun is going down. Hats off. Heads bow low. Even the wind seems to stand still momentarily. The cowboys knell to the ground, making the sign of the cross. He grabs a handful of arena dirt, kisses his closed fist before releasing the earth from his hand to the wind. The community bow their heads. A roar from the loud speakers, it’s time to saddle up and get your Rodeo on! The festivities continues- announcer, musica, another ice cold drink for to take the edge off your seat. Meanwhile, the cowboys walk back to the chutes to meet their destiny, a luck of the draw and add their dazzling brillance and athletic prowness to the collective center of the arena. Brave or crazy, with Ganas for sure. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I jump into the pit and climb on rails behind the shoot. To move you lead with your shoulder past other shoulders. Boots step over sport bags with gear and vests with crosses are laid out. Gates open and clang shut. Legs swing over railings. Spurs hang loose on the fence. Fancy chaps are thrown over the wall. Boots dangle in space. A father is whispering in his son’s ear. What can one know of a father’s advice for taking your very first ride? How many rodeos have they seen? The father takes a stance, his arm in the air and waves it as he bends his knees in a quick gesture; hia hands clench in the air around an imaginary rope - his spine stretches thrusts forward. Repeat gesture. The son bites his lip like a young Elvis might have done. He watches his father from the corner of his eye. Looks around. He pulls his hat down to block the sun from his focused eyes. Dust blows behind his lashes in a storm. He paces the corral. Other riders gather, swing there chapped legs over the bent railings; tie off their boots so they won’t fly off midair. Pacing. Preening. Stretching. Down in the trenches men stretch on the wall like dancers in studio. They’re busted up but the show must go on. Aches and pains are wrapped; elbows, wrists, fingers. Another sign of the cross made. A petition to heaven. The hat brim is wedged tighter like the narrow chute gets tighter like the rope around the bull. Behind the chutes it’s constrained close quarters. The conversation between you and God is right out front and center. Intimacy is found in a bowed head. Eyes are closed. Faith and fate are interlaced and finished off tight with a bite of the teeth. The body twinges from head to toe and shakes as if channeling a spirit. The neck muscles pop. Head snap. Side to side. Men’s hats crowd around the chute shading the rider from all angles. All you see is the gloved hand; the rope and the hair standing staight on the back of the bull. Bulls are proded in file down the line seperated by gated bars. Everything around me feels like two tons of fate waiting for the roll of the dice. The air is thick. The flies are thick. Teen age boys with ball caps hang back and move up in the ranks from the outside to the inside. Rodeo Clowns dance, make the crowd laugh and shoo bucking bulls away from the fallen cowboys who’ve crashed to the ground or landed on their feet. The gathered energy of man and animal is palatable. Leather straps are tightened. Deep concentration. Hands fly. Legs grip tighter. GO! Two bodies, one man, one animal lerch against the sky leaping, rearing, bucking. a hat flies off, a hand waves crazy in the air and he falls to earth. The cowboy mystique holds the play of the mercies of God and Anima, life and death and miracles large and small. He casts himself free from the confins of the luck of the draw and shoots for an 8 seconds play against time. The boy flies out the gate and returns a man. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Tahoma; letter-spacing: 0px;">THERE IS A DICHO THAT PRAYS " LAS VEREDAS QUITARAN, PERO LA QUERENCIA CUANDO" IT TRANSLATES LIKE " YOU CAN ERASE THE ROADS, BUT NEVER THE QUERENCIA"</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> In the history of Bull fighting in Spain there is a word,</span> Querencia <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">the center part of the arena where a man or animal knows their essential center spot. A place where the wounded bull goes to renew his strength and center himself for a fresh charge. It is </span> a place in which we know exactly who we are. The place from which we speak our deepest beliefs. <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">To find our own “</span>Querencia” one’s <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">center doesn’t mean one literally has to ride a bull. It’s probably a place out in nature; where you can see forever or mark the passage of your life’s cornerstones. If you want the real deal and not just what’s in the movies connect to your dust and the roots of tradition and feel the pulse and the heart of a culture that lies within each one of us.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The mythic west has forever captivated our desire for something wild and free. The iconic cowboy and the Lone Ranger was born out of the salt of the sweat the earth and beasts of burden. It is that space between flesh and sky, seperating and universally tied breaking the rules of gravity and grace; courage and bravery. The mystic lies in the curl of smoke from a cigarette by a distant fire; it’s in the step of a walk bordering on something between a strut smooth and to the point. The cowboy’s Wrangler style and the free spirit of a man in the prime of his malsculinity, con ganas, has nothing to lose and lives life on his own terms. He entertains us with his courage finding communion with the stretched limits of sensativity of a disernment completely at odds of either flight or crash and burn. He gathers his courage and with God’s help he rolls the dice and does it again.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">In the advent of Roy Rogers, the 1950’s TV cowboy legend inspired a flurry of TV and hollywood dreams. The matenee, backyard and city street cowboys dreams were planted into the psyche. for young boys around the world and a code of ethics for kids sporting sixguns and cowboy hats. Roy Rodgers, credits his inspiration for his fancy roping and the sport from Mexican trick roper and entertainer, Vincente Oropeza, winner of the first World Championship Trick and Fancy Roping in 1900. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">To really connect to the experience of the west this summer find your local rodeo arena, for a charreria, or jarepayo and discover the roots of the western Cowboy. He was born from the heartland of Mexico. One may arrive a stranger but you will leave feeling you belong to a tradition, the salt of the earth, the dust and the wind. Connect with the history and spirit of the traditional vaquero life. May your sense of community be expanded from making new friends; Be awe inspired to witness the athletic spirit passed down for generations of ranching families and people who work and know the elements of the earth. Feel the free spirit within yourself move in your blood. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Cowboys are cut from a different cloth. Rodeo cowboys defy gravity. Back ass backwards arched to the sky their silhouette flies through the air wild and free. Cowboy hats, boots,chaps, flying colors. A hawk feather. A rosary. Colorful and self asured masculity is not challenged to wearing pastels. Real men wear pink. Metalic blues and reds shine in the afterglow of stormy skies and arena lights.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Get a cowboy hat. You just may walk a bit taller with a little more confidence and find your place in the world when you cowboy up. Doesn’t matter where. Something in your blood knows. Put some country music on and go find yourself a rodeo. A pair of cowboy boots, made from ostrich, alligator, manta rey, and a designer twist and a good cowboy hat. Don’t leave Chihuahua without a pair or two of authentic cowboy boots!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #601400; font-family: 'Garamond Premier Pro';"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Nunca me imaginé montando a caballo, ni siquiera sabía dónde quedaba Chihuahua y mucho menos había conocido a una mujer ranchera. Como fotógrafa norteamericana, casi siempre viajaba sola como parte de misiones para organizaciones humanitarias binacionales. Pero cuando fui a Casas Grandes por tres días, me quedé cinco años. Bajo el sol cegador buscaba ganado; recorría hileras de alambrado que desaparecían en el horizonte bajo el cielo interminable; veía el amanecer tras las ceremonias rarámuri; escuchaba los tambores, las flautas, las notas de un violín que se desvanecían en los cañones. Aún recuerdo la quietud de las mañanas frías en la sierra tomando café con los vaqueros junto a una fogata. Sentí un paz inmensa.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Chihuahua Salvaje </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Photo essay by RAEchel RUNNING</span></div>
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<b><i>Nunca me imaginé montando a caballo, ni siquiera sabía dónde quedaba Chihuahua y mucho menos había conocido a una mujer ranchera. Como fotógrafa norteamericana, casi siempre viajaba sola como parte de misiones para organizaciones humanitarias binacionales. Pero cuando fui a Casas Grandes por tres días, me quedé cinco años. Bajo el sol cegador buscaba ganado; recorría hileras de alambrado que desaparecían en el horizonte bajo el cielo interminable; veía el amanecer tras las ceremonias rarámuri; escuchaba los tambores, las flautas, las notas de un violín que se desvanecían en los cañones. Aún recuerdo la quietud de las mañanas frías en la sierra tomando café con los vaqueros junto a una fogata. Sentí un paz inmensa.</i></b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Pocas personas saben que Chihuahua es una palabra náhuatl que significa: “Lugar donde se junta el agua de los ríos”. También son pocos los que saben que el escritor ecologista, cazador y conservacionista norteamericano Aldo Leopold, quien viajó a Chihuahua en los años 30, escribió sus reconocidos ensayos que respaldan las ideas sobre la naturaleza y la ética medioambiental tras una revelación. Su libro <i>Almanaque del condado arenoso </i>vendió poco más de dos millones de copias y continúa siendo piedra angular de los esfuerzos de conservación entre Estados Unidos y México.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Chihuahua se ubica en medio de un paisaje biodiverso poco común, la región de la Sierra Madre. Hace más de 50 millones de años, durante el Paleoceno, los antiguos volcanes dieron forma a la Sierra Madre, columna vertebral de América. A 3 mil kilómetros de altura, los pinos y robles de la sierra se elevan desde fértiles campos agrícolas; olas de agave y quiote descienden hasta la costa marina tropical y diversos hábitats se entretejen para sustentar a más de 3 mil especies de flora y fauna. Conforman este ecosistema único cotorras serranas, osos negros, lobos mexicanos, ocelotes, jaguares, venados cola blanca, pavos salvajes, antílopes, perros de las praderas y bisontes.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Las culturas de Chihuahua son tan diversas como su geografía, miles de años de migraciones se dieron antes de que una línea definiera la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos. El antiguo puesto comercial de Paquimé era el punto de encuentro entre los pueblos ancestrales de México y los indios Pueblo del suroeste norteamericano. Durante los últimos 500 años, indígenas, españoles, mestizos, indios apaches, rarámuri y, recientemente, mormones mexicoamericanos, menonitas alemanes y chinos-mexicanos han contribuido a la historia de relaciones culturales en esta parte del país. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Hace más de 1,000 años, los pueblos antiguos intercambiaban bienes desde Mesoamérica hasta el suroeste. Los pochtecas, comerciantes y viajeros, llevaban la cultura a cuestas en su recorrido por las rutas mercantiles de la época del Imperio Azteca. Iban diseminando bienes, ceremonias, cerámica, arquitectura y conceptos profundos sobre el universo. Hacia el norte, viajaban el chocolate y las guacamayas; hacia el sur, la turquesa proveniente de los antiguos sitios del Cañón del Chaco. Las semillas de maíz, la calabaza, los frijoles y el chile se dispersaron; el agave y las conchas de mar llegaron a lugares apartados de los océanos. Los diseños de las pictografías y la cerámica difundieron sus motivos: Quetzalcóatl, la serpiente emplumada, y Tláloc, dios de la lluvia, que unen los elementos del cielo y la tierra; los héroes gemelos mayas, que lucharon contra los Señores de la Oscuridad; y el juego de pelota, que aún se encuentra en los sitios arqueológicos. Las líneas en el mapa cambian, pero la geografía del paisaje conserva la huella del paso humano.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #2d2628;">La aventura comienza en la mañana, cuando todavía está oscuro. El viaje desde la ciudad de Chihuahua hacia el suroeste hasta Creel, en autobús o a bordo del famoso tren El Chepe, implica un recorrido de ocho horas hasta la entrada del Cañón del Cobre. Desde Creel se</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> pueden explorar con un guía los siete cañones y las remotas comunidades de Cusárare, Urique, Batopilas y Norogachi, así como muchas maravillas naturales. El viaje hacia el noroeste, hasta Nuevo Casas Grandes, dura cinco horas en coche o autobús. En cualquier dirección, se extienden paisajes dorados bajo el sol; las planicies onduladas de pasto, las montañas azules a lo lejos y los inesperados lagos del desierto se entrelazan en torno a los ranchos bardeados y los campos menonitas; los caminos suben por montañas cubiertas de sombra y cañones con frescos bosques de pinos. Todo pasa por la ventana. Los pequeños poblados y comunidades agrícolas están unidos por nuevos caminos que desafían a cualquier conductor a seguir el mapa sin pasar por la misma ruta dos veces. Los pintorescos puestos junto a la carretera venden el fruto del trabajo en las comunidades y son ideales para detenerse a pedir direcciones y aprender algo sobre la historia local.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">En el norte, las tierras de los ranchos se alargan sobre vastos horizontes. Campos. Desierto. Las montañas lejanas que te llaman. A apenas unos 15 minutos de Nuevo Casas Grandes, el pueblo original de Casas Grandes recibió su nombre del antiguo sitio de Paquimé. El viejo centro comercial de adobe sirvió como vínculo entre los antiguos mercaderes de Mesoamérica y los habitantes de la frontera del norte durante miles de años. Las puertas en forma de T y los grabados de la serpiente emplumada sobre piedra se pueden ver por toda la región. Sigue siendo el punto central del noroeste para comerciantes y visitantes, es el cruce de las Américas.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">En el centro de Casas Grandes se puede visitar el Museo de las Culturas del Norte, que es patrimonio mundial. También se puede explorar Mata Ortiz, un poblado artesanal mundialmente famoso por su cerámica fina, y regresar en el tiempo a la Revolución Mexicana con el recorrido de la Hacienda San Diego o retroceder aún más, unos 4,000 años, al pasar por las puertas en forma de T del Valle de las Cuevas o Cuarenta Casas. Otra opción es viajar una hora hacia el norte hasta Janos y experimentar la vida tradicional de los ranchos para ser testigo de cómo los esfuerzos de conservación están devolviéndole bisontes a las históricas praderas y dándole esperanzas a la comunidad. Prueba el sotol color a tierra de don Cuco, una de las mejores bebidas de Chihuahua, y deja volar tu mente con las historias de los vientos que han soplado en estas asombrosas praderas.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Desde Creel, los caminos conducen a parques naturales, caídas de agua y comunidades rarámuri. Los guías locales conocen las ceremonias que marcan cada temporada, desde Navidad hasta Semana Santa, y saben cómo encontrar a algún artesano, músico o sitio en particular. Hay una ruta nueva para llegar a Norogachi, al viejo poblado minero de Batopilas, y a Urique, campamento base del Ultramaratón, que yacen al fondo de los sinuosos caminos en la compleja serie de siete cañones. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">La dueña de Agave Lindo Tours, Diana Acosta, creció en la Hacienda San Diego, donde su bisabuela trabajaba como cocinera durante la Revolución. Diana adereza sus recorridos gastronómicos de la región con notas picantes, como la historia de las enchiladas de su mamá, el famoso queso menonita o las propiedades medicinales del sotol. Cada sabor tiene un gusto definido inspirado en los frutos de la tierra. John Hatch, de Galivan Tours, un mexicoamericano que creció en la Sierra Madre, es maestro e historiador mormón retirado y conoce algunos de los mejores sitios para pescar en las sierras.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Rabbit en la Luna es un rancho ubicado al oeste de Colonia Juárez, la joya inmaculada de los mormones y el lugar perfecto para explorar los espectaculares campos montado a caballo, para observar aves o para contemplar el movimiento de los venados cola blanca y los pavos salvajes. Desde aquí, el camino hacia la frontera del norte es una línea recta, un rancho tras otro por la carretera abierta.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Visitar la Hacienda Corralitos, de 250 años de antigüedad, propiedad de la familia Wallace, es adentrarse en la historia de un rancho productivo. Bill Wallace y sus hijos trabajan con el ganado; su hermana Carmela es una activista dedicada a promover la defensa política de la preservación de los álamos del río Casas Grandes. Establecida en 1746, la Hacienda Corralitos alguna vez comprendió más de 325 mil hectáreas. Hoy, bajo la sombra de los elevados álamos, parece una isla verde en medio de los campos de maíz menonitas que cubren el extenso desierto. La historia de la hacienda es una historia de entereza y resistencia: sobrevivió desde incursiones apaches hasta un ataque de Pancho Villa en 1916. Por la puerta trasera de la cocina entran vaqueros, como los que se ven en las películas del viejo oeste. Aquí la historia no es cosa de libros, está sentada a tu lado en la mesa. Ensillada en el bar de la familia, me siento como en un museo del viejo oeste. Las fotografías viejas y los objetos de la vida familiar me hacen reflexionar sobre los eventos históricos. Hoy las canciones norteñas salen de un iPod, pero hace mucho tiempo eran los mariachis quienes tocaban toda la noche. Las copas se elevan entre risas para brindar por una canción.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Los sabores y la hospitalidad de Chihuahua llegan hasta la ciudad de Nueva York. La chef Zarela, amiga de la infancia de los Wallace, creció en la Hacienda San Pedro y es famosa por su tradicional comida auténtica acompañada de historias de la vida en el rancho y por ofrecerle a la gente una colorida gama de sabores de otra parte del mundo.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Un día de 2009, cuando la seguridad en la frontera de México y Estados Unidos estaba en pleno apogeo, 23 bisontes bebés cruzaron la frontera. Este evento marcó la histórica reintroducción de una especie nativa a sus praderas tradicionales de pastura. La acción es parte de un proyecto del Servicio Nacional de Parques de Estados Unidos, en conjunto con el parque nacional Wind Cave y Pronatura Noreste, para restaurar los rebaños que antes eran salvajes y las tierras deterioradas por el sobrepastoreo y la ganadería.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">La reserva ecológica El Uno, en la comunidad de Janos, sólo una hora al norte de Casas Grandes, también es hogar de una de las colonias más grandes de perritos de las praderas y de berrendos, especies estudiadas por investigadores internacionales y voluntarios que también educan a los locales acerca de la importancia de administrar la tierra. No hay servicios de ecoturismo en El Uno y no hay hospedaje para viajeros, pero se puede encontrar alojamiento en Janos con el hospitalario ex alcalde Celso Jaquez. Él y su esposa Emma Leos de Jaquez concibieron un plan de ecoturismo visionario para esta parte de la región. Son defensores de la comunidad que proporcionan servicios humanitarios a inmigrantes y contribuyen a resguardar la cultura local y preservar las historias de los apaches, los españoles y los menonitas. Hospedan viajeros en la casa de huéspedes Don Cuco, cerca del punto fronterizo El Berrendo/Antelope Wells, en el municipio de Janos. La familia también produce sotol Don Cuco, una especie de mezcal que está arraigado en los 800 años de historia de la vieja Casas Grandes y que ha ganado premios internacionales. La receta secreta, conservada por seis generaciones, le da a la bebida un sabor ahumado y fresco que remata con un gusto cálido y complejo. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">El año pasado, corredores de todo el mundo compitieron con los rarámuri locales para juntar dinero, y se distribuyeron más de 60 toneladas de comida durante la devastadora sequía del último invierno.</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>TUTUACA Y RANCHO EL NOGAL</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">En esta red de comunidades, las mujeres están ayudando a cambiar el paisaje. Localizada en un rincón suroeste del Cañón del Cobre, la Tutuaca Mountain School fue fundada y es dirigida por Cindy Tolle, científica y conservacionista norteamericana que pasó siete años como intermediaria entre agencias medioambientales y rancheros en ambos lados de la frontera intentando reintroducir a los bisontes en sus tierras originarias en Chihuahua. La belleza de su rancho rústico te deja sin aliento. En vez de aulas, allí hay naturaleza, y es la comunidad local, los vaqueros, los investigadores y los estudiantes de todo el mundo quienes se convierten en tus mentores y familia por semanas o incluso por meses.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">En la Tutuaca no hay televisión ni celulares, sólo la luz que cambia con las estaciones. En este lugar me familiaricé con conceptos como permacultura, construcción sostenible y granjas orgánicas. Durante una semana pude alimentar bisontes, aprendí sobre baterías solares y horneé pan fresco en un horno de adobe por las mañanas, y por las tardes escalé y me bañé en el río. También matamos un cerdo para hacernos un festín con arroz, frijoles y tortillas caseras.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">En este lejano rancho, Cindy crió a su familia y también a un rebaño de bisontes. Luego abrió una escuela para enseñarle a la gente los principios de los procesos autosostenibles. Cindy y la Tutuaca Mountain School también iniciaron el proyecto de ecoturismo del Parque Nacional Basaseachi, gracias al cual se crearon 120 kilómetros de rutas nuevas, seis campamentos nuevos, 60 nuevas pistas de escalada, así como senderos para ciclismo, excursión y cabalgata.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>MÉXICO DESCONOCIDO</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">El explorador y etnógrafo noruego Carl Lumholtz, autor del libro <i>México desconocido</i>, viajó por el país de 1890 a 1910 documentando las culturas de la región. Al pasar las páginas de su trabajo histórico, en los grabados de hace más de 100 años veo los mismos rostros que veía en las fotografías de mi padre, un fotógrafo que viajó a Norogachi para documentar la Semana Santa en los ochenta. Treinta años después, Santiago, mi guía, me ayuda a seguir las huellas de mi padre para fotografiar también la Semana Santa y recolectar instrumentos para el Museo del Instrumento Musical. Siendo viajero ecológico todo cambia: ya no sólo eres un espectador sino que ahora participas. El mundo moderno y el tradicional se entrelazan. ¿En dónde se encuentran? Aquí se aprende a apreciar y observar el paisaje, los ritos y los rituales, y uno se ajusta a un ritmo distinto. Las sombras se desvanecen con la luz de la luna en ascenso bajo el techo de estrellas. Como viajeros ecológicos podemos contribuir a la conservación de la naturaleza y de las culturas que mantienen vivas sus tradiciones.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Miro hacia la zona fronteriza y sé que los titulares de las noticias no reflejan la verdad de lo que yo conocí de cerca cuando viajé por Chihuahua. Muchas veces me perdí en los senderos y volví a encontrar el camino con ayuda de la gente. Lo que más extraño son los rostros de las personas que me dieron el regalo de conectarse conmigo y de transmitirme su profundo amor por la tierra. Los vientos de la gran historia chihuahuense desempolvan la memoria de miles de años y se te quedan adentro en el alma. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>A JOURNEY ACROSS CHIHUAHUA’S WILD LANDSCAPES</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>A city slicker to the bone, I never imagined myself on a horse. As an American photographer, often traveling alone on humanitarian missions, I could barely locate Chihuahua on a map. However, when I went to Casas Grandes on assignment for three days I ended up staying five years. I fondly remember the peaceful stillness of cool mornings in the sierra, and sitting around fires drinking coffee with cowboys. </i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Chihuahua is home to a rare bio-diversity—divergent ecosystems that are interwoven to support over 3000 species of rare flora and fauna. Few people are aware of the fact that famed American wilderness writer, hunter and conservationist, Aldo Leopold, traveled to Chihuahua and wrote some of his most revered essays from there, inspired by the place’s beauty. To this day, he remains a cornerstone of the Mexico-US conservation efforts. </i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>My adventure begins on a morning so early it’s still dark, with me traveling by bus and the famous El Chepe train from Chihuahua City to Creel—an eight- hour ordeal to Copper Canyon that’s worth every second. From there, roads lead to natural parks and waterfalls and traditional Raramuri communities. Here, two of the must-sees:</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>As cowboys saunter past, experience a total cultural immersion into the history of a working ranch. You’ll feel instantly transported into an old Wild West movie. </i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>TUTUACA MOUNTAIN SCHOOL </i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Founded by Cindy Tolle, an American conservationist who helped reintroduce the bison to its original homeland in Chihuahua, you’ll spend the day reliving a simpler time: baking bread in an adobe oven and bathing in a cool river.</i></span><span style="font: 10.5px Futura; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>VIAJES A LA MEDIDA</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Tel. en E.U. (307) 699 4997</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">wwoofmexico.org/group/farminyepachichihuahua</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Servicios de viaje y visitas guiadas</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">agavelindotours.com </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Tel. Cel. (636) 103 6004 </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Tel. Cel. en E.U. (520) 405 8357 </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Tel. (636) 695 0111</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>RANCHO RABBIT EN LA LUNA </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Tel. en E.U. (480) 326 4099 </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>HACIENDA CORRALITOS </b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Tel. en E.U. (915) 929 6603 </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Tel. (636) 693 5180</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>RANCHO EL UNO, RESERVA DE BISONTES</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Escenas del día a día en los ranchos Corralitos, Rabbit en La Luna y La Reserva Ecológica Uno, donde se reintrodujo el bisón; ceremonias rarámuri; en la penúltima imagen, don José en El Centro, restaurante ubicado en Urique, donde se reúnen participantes del Ultramaratón.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">ECORanch STORY: ROUGH FINAL DRAFT word count: 4818</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I never imagined my self on a horse much less did I know where Chihuahua was. I went on assignment to Casas Grandes for three days and stayed five years. As an American woman photographer, I traveled mostly alone on assignments for bi-national humanitarian organizations. I had never met a woman rancher before and in Chihuahua I met a few. I squinted into the sun looking for cattle in the shadows of mesquite and rode fence lines that disappeared into the horizon under a vast sky. I watched dawn come after all night ceremonies with the Raramuri. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The drums, the flutes, the notes on a violin receding in the canyons vastness. The peace was immense. I remember the stillness of cool mornings in the sierra with the cowboys over a fire drinking instant coffee discussing if we had really seen the bear that had ransacked our camp the day before. I can still feel the cool rolling beads of sweat and ice sliding off a Tecate and disappear into the parched dirt after branding 250 head of cattle on a hot day. Sitting in the back of a pickup truck riding home the lines of history blurs. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land." Aldo Leopold</span></i></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Few people know Chihuahua, is a Nahuatl word meaning, "The place where the water of the rivers meet, ” or "Dry and sandy place." It is a land of revolution and change. Pancho Villa is synonymous with the Mexican Revolution in Northern Mexico, but few are aware the vision for the environmental movement was also inspired in the Sierra Madres. American wilderness writer, hunter and conservationist, Aldo Leopold, traveled to Chihuahua in the 1930s. There in the pristine forest along the shores of the Gavilan River, he had an epiphany to write his revered essays espousing his ideas of wilderness and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_ethics"><span style="font: 12.0px Futura; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1c00ad; text-decoration: underline;">environmental ethics</span></a> . His book, <i>A</i> <i>Sand County Almanac, </i>sold over 2 million copies, and remains a cornerstone in conservation efforts between the US and Mexico today. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"><i>“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” </i><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43828.Aldo_Leopold"><span style="font: 12.0px Futura; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;"><i>Aldo Leopold</i></span></a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Chihuahua is within a rare bio-diverse landscape, the Madrean Zone. In the Paelcone 65 - 56 million years ago, ancient volcanos formed the Sierra Madre, the backbone of the Americas. At 10,000 feet, Sierra oaks and Pine rise up from the fertile agricultural fields made fertile by the volcanic ash. Desert seas of agave and Kiote descend to the tropical sea shore. The divergent ecosystems are interwoven to support over 3000 species of flora and a diversity of rare fauna. Thick Billed Parrots, Black bears, Mexican Wolf, Ocelots and Jaguar, Cous deer and Guild turkey, Antelope, Praire Dog colonies and Bison all comprise this unique biotic ecosystem.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The cultures of Chihuahua are as diverse as the geography. Thousands of years of migrations ensued before a line in the sand defined the US/Mexico border. Paquime, the ancient outpost was at the crossroads of trade of the ancient ancestors of Mexico and the Southwestern Puebloan cultures some scholars consider the home of the mythic Aztlan within the Gran Chichimeca. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The past 500 years the Indigenous, the Spanish, the Mestizo, the Apaches and enduring Raramuri; and in recent times, the American Mexican Mormons; Germanic Mennonites and the Chinese Mexicans all have contributed and reflect the profound history of people’s cultural relationships to the landscape at the crossroads of the Americas. Over 1000 years ago the Ancient Ancestors exchanged goods from Meso America to the Greater Southwest. The Puchtecas, trader priests, carried culture on their backs. traveling extensive trade routes. They disseminated goods, ceremonies, ceramics, architecture and profound concepts of the universe and their world. Chocolate and macaws traveled north and turquoise traveled south from the ancient sites of Chaco Canyon and the Four Corners of the Southwestern United States. Seeds of corn, squash, beans and chile were disseminated; agave and and seashells were traded and are found in places very far from the sea. The designs on pictographs and ancient pottery swirl in patterns, Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent and Tlaloc, the Rain Gods unite the elements of earth and sky. The Hero Twins, battle the Gods of Darkness and kick a ball across time in ball courts found at ancient sites. Lines on the map change but the geography of the landscape holds the stories of the unfolding human history.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> All roads lead to the heart of Chihuahua. The adventure begins in the early dark morning. Traveling from Chihuahua City southwest to Creel, by bus or the famous EL CHEPE train, it’s an eight hour ride to the gateway of Copper Canyon. From Creel you can explore with a guide the seven canyons and remote communities Cusarare, Urique, Batapillas, and Norogachi and many natural wonders. Traveling northwest to Nuevo Casas Grandes it’s an five hour ride by car or bus. In either direction, the golden landscapes unfolds under the sun and changing seasons; rolling plains of native grass,the distant azure mountains and unexpected blue desert lakes are sewn in patchwork designs between fenced ranch lands and Mennonite fields; the roads ascend into shadowed mountains and canyons of cool pine forests, the landscape flies by the window glass. Small townships and farming communities are joined by new roads and challenge any driver trying to follow a map to go the same way twice. The picturesque roadside stands sell the fruits of the communities labor; they make great places to stop to ask for directions, and learn some local history. Whatever mode of travel or direction you go, either destination is a meeting point to outlying regions of interest. Visitors return again and again because there is always a new adventure just down the road.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Adventures are not ‘vacations’ as in “relax and do nothing”, rather it’s a journey that engages your senses pushing the limits of what you know and takes you to places unknown in the world and within yourself. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: line-through;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When you travel, it is the kindness of strangers and what you might discover on the path less traveled. Ecology is about recognizing everything is interconnected after all. There is a menu of options that can be tailored to fit whatever level of adventure you are looking for. For the individual or a small group of friends, one feels safe traveling with knowledgable local guides. Most are bilingual and all of them are passionate to share their knowledge of the region.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Wild Life and Ecology Tours</i> are hands on volunteer experiences; experience local ranch life and eco education, birding, fishing and land management projects. <i>Past and Present Tours</i> explore the ancient and modern cultures; visit the Mata Ortiz village famous for it’s pottery and savor the distinct regional food traditions. <i>Recreation and Adventure Tours</i> involve active participation and involve more sweat. Climb or ride down a mountain or trek deep into mysterious canyons. There are also adventures of the heart. These tours bring humanitarian aid, local health and education programs where it is needed most. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What I love about eco adventures is it’s not Disneyland. It’s for real. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Last year, the International Ultra Marathon in Urique, runners from all over the world ran with the local Raramuri to raise money and distributed over 60 tons of food during last winters devastating draught. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Just as the ancient people prayed for rain, todays ranchers look to the sky and Google earth for signs of a reprieve from the draught and a change in the economy and the political climate. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">What has given some ranchers hope to preserve their land and cultural traditions for future generations is through forging new binational partnerships with environmental agencies like CONANP - Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas, PRONATURA, and TNC The Nature Conservancy. The Chihuahuan landscape is the workplace and a living museum. The ranch is the school. There is the immediacy of connecting and learning from the natural world before you. It is real as the earth beneath your feet.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">CASAS GRANDES, Adventure at the Crossroads</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In the north the ranch lands rolls out in vast horizon lines. Fields. Desert. distant mountains beckon you. Just fifteen minutes away from Nuevo Casas Grandes, el Pueblo de Casas Grandes received it’s name from the ancient site of Paquime. The ancient adobe trading center linked the ancient traders of Meso America to the Northern frontier for thousands of years. Signs of the T-door and plumed serpent are pecked into stone through out the region. It remains the northwest center point of traders and visitors at the crossroads of the Americas. The Museum of Northern Cultures, a world heritage site is at the center of Casas Grandes.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Visitors to the region can also explore the famous artisan potters village of Mata Ortiz , famous worldwide for their fine ceramics. Step back to the Mexican Revolution on a tour of the Hacienda San Diego, and walk back in time over 4,000 years through the T-doors in The Valley of the Caves or Quarenta Casas. Head one hour north to Janos and experience traditional ranch life and see how conservation efforts are restoring bison to the historic grasslands and giving hope to the community. Sample the earthy toned Don Cuco Sotol one of the finest spirits of Chihuahua and let your mind drift on the stories of the winds </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">From Creel the roads lead to beautiful natural parks and waterfalls and the traditional Raramuri communities. The local guides know the seasonal ceremonies marking the seasons from Christmas to Samana Santa and can direct you to find an artistian or musician or a particular location. The Cusarare Mission and Loyola Museum hosts one of the finest painting collections painted in 1713 by Mexican artist Miguel Correa depicting the life of Virgin Mary.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is a new road to Norogachi and The old mining townships of Batapillas, one of the largest silver mines and Urique, the base camp of the Ultra Marathon, lies nested at the bottom of winding roads through the complex series of the seven canyons. It’s not a wonder some people have been captivated for years to explore and heed the call of the mysterious canyon lands of Unknown Mexico.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"> Spencer Mac Callum, an American Anthropologist came to the region in 1976 looking for the artist who made three pots he found in a junk store. The call of adventure lead him south of the border and down the road to towards the fateful meeting and binational friendship with master potter Juan Quezada, recipient of the 1999 Primo Nacional de Artes , that was to mark the beginning of the Mata Ortiz ceramic movement. This year Spencer is nominated for<i> La Orden Mexicana del Águila Azteca. </i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i> </i>Spencer and Emi MacCallum are usually the first stop on the road in el Pueblo de Casas Grandes. There is always a great story and dog to pet when you arrive at their gate. They are a cultural hub between visitors and the local community and have fostered many chance meetings, changing the course of many traveler. They offer extended stay rentals in their beautifully restored historic adobes within walking distance of Paquime and the town center.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Agave Lindo Tours, owner Diana Acosta, grew up at the Hacienda San Diego where her great grandmother worked as the cook during the revolution. Diana’s gastronomic tours of the region are served up with spicy notes on the history of her mama’s enchiladas, the famous Mennonite cheese and the medicinal properties of Sotol. Every flavor a distinct taste inspired from the fruits of the earth. Galivan Tours, John Hatch, is a Mexican American. John grew up in the Sierra Mades near Colonia Jaurez , a retired teacher and Mormon historian, he knows some of the best fishing spots in the sierras. He also offers insight into the ancient cultural history of the region.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Rabbit en La Luna located west of Colonia Juarez, is a pristine gem of a conservation ranch waiting to happen. It is a great place to explore some spectacular country on horseback; observe birds and contemplate the movement of Cous deer and Guild turkeys. From here it’s a straight shot to the northern frontier. One ranch leads to another down the open road.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Visiting the Wallace family’s 250 year old Hacienda Corralitos is a cultural emersion into history of a working ranch for three generations. Bill Wallace and sons work their cattle; sister, Carmela, an elegant Ranch Lady swears like Texan in perfect Spanish and puts on red lipstick before she checks her cattle from her suburban she drives like a horse. She is a community activist promoting the arts and culture of the region which includes political advocacy for the preservation of the cottonwood trees along the Casas Grandes River. It is all in a days work, the sweat and the fight to protect a sense of freedom that is endangered and rare. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Established in 1746, the Hacienda Corralitos, once encompassed over 800,000 acres. Now it sits picturesque shaded by tall Cottonwood trees , an island of green on the long horizon of yellow Mennonite corn fields in this vast desert. The hacienda history is a story of endurance and resiliency surviving Apache raids, and an attack by Pancho Villa in 1916. Real cowboys walk in the kitchen back door just like they do in old wild west movies. The sense of history is not something in a book but is sitting right next to you. Saddled up at the family bar feels more like you’re in a western museum. Aged photographs and the trappings and artifacts of family life, placed through out the rooms of the hacienda invoke contemplation of the historic events. Norteño songs play on an ipod when long ago real mariachis used to play through out the night. The laughter and shot glasses raise in unison toasting to life bursting into a song ! The flavors and hospitality of Chihuahua can even be found in the canyons of New York City. Chef Zarela, childhood friends of the Wallace’s, grew up at Hacienda San Pedro and is famous for her authentic traditional food seasoned with stories of ranch life, a colorful palette for people to taste a world away. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>“The bison are returning not just for ecological reasons, but cultural and historical ones, too,” she explains. “You can’t tell the ecological story without the cultural one. This is a very romantic project. We’re recovering the spirit of the place.” Nélida Barajas, the Nature Conservancy’s representative in Chihuahua, </i><a href="http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/mexico/index.htm"><span style="font: 12.0px Futura; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;"><i>Mexico</i></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">On a fall day in 2009 with US/Mexico border security at it’s height, a truckload of twenty three baby bison walked across the border marking a historic reintroduction of a native species back to traditional grazing lands, como parte de un proyecto del US National Park Service and Wind Cave National Park and Pronatura Noreste restore the once wild herds and the overgrazed lands due to overgrazing and cattle ranching. Most people don’t know bison once roamed these grasslands in great herds before there was a border. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">El Uno Ecological Preserve in the community of Janos, only an hour north of Casas Grande is also home to one of the largest prairie dog colonies and prong hong antelope, species that are studied by international researchers and volunteers who also help educate the local children and their parents through community outreach about the importance of land stewardship. There are no ecotourism services at El Uno. Although there is no lodging for travelers, you can find accommodations in Janos with the hospitable ex-mayor Celso Jaquez. He and his wife Emma Leo de Jaquez have a visionary ecotourism plan for their part of the region as a solution for the economy. They are community advocates providing humanitarian services for immigrants and the local culture keepers sharing points of interests and cultural preservation of the Apache and Spanish and Mennonite histories for curious travelers. They host travelers at the Don Cuco Guesthouse near El Berendo/Antolope Wells Port of Entry in the municipal of Janos. The family also produces Don Cuco Sotol an International award winning elixir akin to Mescal. The sixth generation, secret recipe, tastes smoky and cool, and finishes with a warm complex flavor. It has roots in the 800 year history of the regions ancient Casas Grandes peoples and is said to have magical curative effects. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Guiding, like ranching is a network of communities and women are helping to change the face of the landscape.Located in a southwestern corner pocket of Copper Canyon the Tutuaca Mountain School founded and directed by Cindy Tolle, an American scientist; conservationist; an extreme rock climber and mom. The ranch is rustic and it’s beauty takes your breath away. Here the wilderness is your classroom and the local community, the cowboys, researchers, and students from around the world are your mentors and your extended family for a week or a few months. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is no TV, no cell phones, just the ever changing light of the seasons. I was unfamiliar with concepts like permaculture, sustainable building and organic farms nor had I heard of the WWOOF program.* We fed bison in the morning; learnt about solar batteries; baked fresh bread in an adobe oven; gathered our salad from the garden; rocking climbing in the afternoon and bathing in the river at the end of the work day; we butchered a pig and had a feast with rice, beans and odd shaped homemade tortillas for the following week. Cindy raised a family and a bison herd on the remote ranch and opened a school to teach sustainable principals. Cindy and the Tutuaca Mountain School also initiated the Basaseachi National Park ecotourism project creating 120 km of new trails, 6 new campsites, 60 new rock climbs, trails for biking, hiking and horse riding. Take in the dramatic view at the Basaseachic Falls, at 250 metres, it is the 2nd largest cascade in Mexico. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cindy spent seven years interfacing with conservation agencies and ranchers on both sides of the border to help reintroduce the bison to their original homeland in Chihuahua at Rancho El Uno.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Explorer and Ethnographer Carl Lumholtz, author of <i>Unknown Mexico, </i>traveled throughout Mexico 1890-1910 documenting the cultures of the region. I turn the pages of his historic work and see the same faces in the etchings from a hundred years ago in the photographs of my father, a photographer who traveled to Norogachi to document Semana Santa in the 80’s. Thirty years later I would be led by my guide Santiago and follow in my father’s footsteps photographing Semana Santa and collecting instruments for the Musical Instrument Museum. I would stand in front of the same church, and look up at the same Jesus and listen to the same drums and see the traditional faces of the past intermix with the modern world. Back then there were only dirt roads. Now there is a paved road from Chihuahua City and Creel. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Being an eco traveler is different one is just not a spectator but an actual participant. The modern world and the traditional world are at a crossroads. How will the two worlds coincide? We learn to appreciate and observe the landscape, the rites and rituals and the adjust to a different rhythm of time. The headlines fall away by the light of an ascending moon under a canopy of stars. As eco travelers we can help champion to preserve the wilderness and the appreciation and preservation of the cultures who keep their traditions alive. I think of those who’ve gone before me. There is a feeling of unity with the natural world.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">One meets other wandering souls who took the road less traveled and found their destiny. Some fell in love with a woman, others fell in love with the land, and a few fell in love with both. Doug Rhodes came from the midwestern United states and fell in love with a local girl, Anna Maria Chavez. Their guest house El Paradiso Oso, sits above the canyon, the last and first place you’ll see offering reprieve from the a harrowing road trip.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The day was rainy and the warmth of the ranch house was inviting. Traditional Raramuri crafts and collection of artifacts from the historic ranching and cultures made for interesting conversation over huevos rancheros and cinnamon coffee. Copper Canyon Guide, Santiago James Barnaby, a self educated anthropologist and ex-art professor came in the 80s. For thirty years he’s trekked and chartered mule trips, guiding photographers and film makers and adventure seekers into the far reaches of the back country to engage intimately with the traditions of the Raramuri. A Godfather to a few Raramuri children and friend of many, Santiago’s personal network has helped sponsor ceremonies and provided school supplies over the years. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Authentic Copper Canyon, David Hensley, never tires of sharing the great memories people share about their ambitious tour from Los Mochis, from the sea to the northern frontier and back again. Travelers can join at any point in the journey traveling through Copper Canyon on El Chepe, the famous train of the sierra and through Casas Grandes to the frontera or loop back. ToursPac, Carlos Hernandez, was a student of archeology and tourism. Now he shares the love of extreme adventures in the wild lands, rock climbing, cave explorations, river rafting and archeological and cultural emersion tours. Recently he and his new wife opened a hostel near the tramway in Copper Canyon . </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">How does conservation build a community? By restoring our relationship to the land and our cultural legacies. As an adventure traveler one participates within a community of people from diverse backgrounds and experiences. It is doing something together you’ve never done before. As stewards of culture and the planet. What is unique and important is visitors are not just being entertained. We are participants bearing witness to age old traditions as ancient as the land and the first peoples. The past meets the present. We may not change the politics but as hosts and visitors we are a bridge of reciprocity and kinship ensures the preservation of the land and the cultures. It is a life changing experience. Their songs become our songs and we carry them with us when we go back to our world , shake off the dust and see the world through a different lens. Adventures engage your senses. They push you to face edges and places unknown within yourself. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I remember nights standing in shadows of firelight with other people from distant parts of the world; China, Palestine, France and Canada. Our different languages blurred into translated murmurs and hand signs made over shared cups of instant coffee and <i>tesquino</i>, the local corn beer from a communal ladle made of dried gourd. The haunting resounding chorus of drums and sweet notes pulled from a humble violin reverberate high on the mesas and soar down deep canyons. Men's painted bodies dance, transform into angels and devils enacting the age old battle between good and evil. Traditional women huddled together and drew their children close in the colorful shawls against the cold. Everyone waits for the first light of dawn.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I look south towards the borderlands knowing the news in the headlines doesn’t reflect the truth of what I came to know personally through traveling in Chihuahua. I got lost and found many times traveling the backroads asking for directions. What I miss most are the faces of the people who gave me the gift of connecting to my humanity and a deeper love for the land. The winds of Chihuahua’s great history blows the dust of memories of thousands of years into your hair, brings a tear to your eye and settles deep into your soul. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: large;">My current body of work explores these cultural edges. I am inspired by the symbol of the T-door bridging the Americas. It is a metaphor along with the plumbed serpent, clouds, maps, cultural icons like the “Sleeping Mexican” and the images made from everyday life like the Mexican bingo game, Loteria. The past and the present, the elements of duality and cultural identity. My thoughts are constantly weaving ideas and symbols I’ve seen from Northern Mexico’s Sierra Madre, to the awe inspiring history of Teotihuacan to the Colorado Plateau, the mesas and the canyons, pop culture and the Indigenous cultures of the Americas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0px;">Out of the despair and tragedy there is something beautiful and passionate that is hopeful because what I have learnt from being in my Mexico is not about being afraid but the Spirit of resiliency and courage to dream against the odds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I found this bra in the desert when I was out with NO MORE DEATHS a couple years ago. I remember picking it up gingerly. It’s perfect virgin whiteness soiled, stained, pained by the dirt rubbed into it violently. Forgotten there. Discarded. Tears welled up right there under the mesquite tree and that harsh sky as I imagined the many faces I’ve seen of a girl or a young woman whose heart carries a dream of America in her tender breast, how it pained me to wondered what happened to her ? She was once someone’s baby girl...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i>Cross your heart ....</i> the pink crosses of Juarez, mark the hundreds of disparicidos, the disappeared women of the borderlands. The curve of the earthly form of a newly budding woman, the details of youth, tender flowers are placed across the landscape between two countries divided by lines on a map. The migration of the ancients and the plight of the immigrants. US policies created these ‘problems’ and yet the birds still migrate and people pray for rain just as they did thousands of years ago </span>and that there is hope like water in the desert. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It is difficult to admit you have been raped, violated to loved ones and admit to the public - I share this "sketch" in solidarity of the courageous women who speak out and help other women to action- women who take off the blindfolds of justice and helps us SEE the truth. With all these feelings flying around today as a result and writing my artist statements between rants this is my process of how I share the pain and plant a seed of hope for a safer world.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bi-lingual paper and planned a visit. He looked so much like my dad I was compelled to meet him and learn more and his beautiful,enchanting home.. The plumed serpent wound up in the corner of the living room. Vibrant Colors reverberated light from two floors and the multicolored surfaces. The main house, the Chapel and the wildly eccentric gardens lead to a wonder world of the most beautiful sustainable inspired outhouse and eco designed spaces I've ever seen. Within the home of Anado and his partner Richard I discovered Hopi Katchinas from Flagstaff's WinterSun Trading Company from Flagstaff, AZ. He knew the work of Shonto Begay and we embraced as if we were kindred spirits How fun to connect the dots. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I have a print in his group show in the beautiful Chapel of Jimmy Ray! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I met Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Costa Ricans, Chinese, Mexicans, Indians, Chinese, Jamacians, Palestinians, artists, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">writers, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">photographers, a dog walker, a life coach. I saw my dear friends from Casas Grandes and Mata Ortiz. How ironic to travel to far to see their familiar faces again. I felt the nostalgia of my 'comison', the itch one can't scratch - my longing for the landscape and community south in Chihuahua, Mexico. It haunts me like an old Mexican love song. The strangers in the big city extended the same kindnesses as the strangers in the harsh landscape of Chihuahua. Kind strangers helping make my way in a strange land showing me the face of compassionate angels. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">He squinted his eyes and looked up as if channeling the words spoken out the side of his mouth. ' You're not here because you wanted to, it's because it's your destiny." </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In that moment</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Jason and I made eye contact sharing a knowing look of a recognition of the crossroad in our lives.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">This past Sunday in the valley debuted the <a href="http://www.ranchofeliz.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.ranchofeliz.com</a> Tri-national Service,Sports, and SOUL video short. Six months since we all met in Agua Prieta we were reliving our memories days before Christmas. It was great to see old friends and become acquainted with the Rancho Feliz family - Gil and his family shared a lovely Mexican inspired feast ; The other good news to share is .... Our experience and work will soon be published in VOLLEYBALL MAGAZINE in a cover story. We hope this</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">I have documented Rancho Feliz's work in Mexico / US Borderlands </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> for the past three years</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">. The experiences have inspired me to SEE how positive change is possible - </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Sombreros off and MIL GRACIAS for Great editing from <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=731034490" href="http://www.facebook.com/Kiatwell" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Kristin Atwell Ford</a>; video shot by <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1121592753" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1121592753" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Dawn Kish</a> and Jefe, <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100000232255278" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000232255278" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Gil Gillenwater</a> for his vision bringing us all together and the Ryerson Rams/ Kasandra Braken, Edidena Para,<a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100002327975505" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002327975505" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Brianna Dologh</a> for their heartfelt words, making a difference and fostering hope within our communities.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I have been invited by renowned Chef Zarela to present my work on the ranching and food traditions of Chihuahua this summer in New York City. It has been a really exciting project to share the love and passion of the history with a larger audience. Although I am Arizona the gran Amor for the Borderlands continues to unfold in the most unexpected places.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It has been five years since I first went with the support of my dear friend Jason and heard of the Villista Cabalgata - Our lives have been forever altered upon our first meeting with the General . </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The one thing that I have learned since launching the Chihuahua Querida</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 1em;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Home Page is that every person recommended to me by Carmela Wallace and Raechel Runnng who I have invited to take part in our upcoming celebration gave a resounding yes with almost a missionary zeal to show the glory and diversity of their beloved Chihuahua was. The beauty of it is that everyone has a specialty . Some promote potters, others have worked in the spectacular Paquime anthropological site, Carmela and scientists from all over the world are dedicated to sustainability and conservation, still others give tours. Whether it is to reveal the secret of making teach cooks to make the prized Chihuahua or Mennonite cheese or sing the praises of sotol, a local mezcal-like spirit- everyone is eager to join us in the fun. Of course their fun is sharing their experiences with the public so you need to go to the events. Alone on cannot share life; others must be there</span></span></span><br />
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<br /></div>RAEchel Runninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01604241604005624679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8899524365931183213.post-68995630233603054292012-03-10T22:30:00.001-08:002012-03-10T22:33:04.942-08:00NACA SUICIDE PREVENTION LOGO WINNERS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>REACH -U R LIFE - Connect HEAL Prosper</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">NACA(Native Americans for Community Action) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">staff choose us both to be Winners in their Logo contest; Lintara's words and my imagery were combined to create the logo for their new Suicide Prevention Program. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">GRACIAS NACA for the opportunity to address a community issue to inspire HOPE for those who are struggling to return to Health. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Below are the sketches I made in photoshop.</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t5-H5KT3DeQ/T1xC8WtxENI/AAAAAAAABbM/dOjqSqifbcQ/s1600/image001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="244" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t5-H5KT3DeQ/T1xC8WtxENI/AAAAAAAABbM/dOjqSqifbcQ/s320/image001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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