I am continually blessed with a cross continent snail mail exchange of ideas. Yesterday artifacts arrived in this odd little vehicle, giving glimpse of far away minds.
Ryan Fitzgerald, a comrade and Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador has, in addition to his community teaching and farming endeavors, been writing extensively. He has passed on to me many words which I have posted here. This is a little handmade book he crafted out of local ephemera. It is filled with more writing and I couldn't be more excited to get through it. Stay tuned for it's public posting.
One of many coca leaves from the Ecua-Colombo boarder, gifted from a farmer, meant for tea.
As I mentioned in an earlier posting, I am continually curious about the world's reaction to our current state and new president. These clippings from an Ecuadorian newspaper came in the bundle. The above clipping is a shamen's display of our former presidential candidates on a beach in Peru. Apparently 9 out of 11 Apus-Inka curanderos "faith healers" predicted Obama to win. Thanks for the faith guys.
This one was particularly interesting to me as a fan of this French Romantic Painting. "The Raft of the Medusa" by Géricault was a politically motivated painting in it's time clearly critiquing the French Monarchy. Here Bush is passing off to Obama, our country, symbolized by the raft of survivors from the French shipwrecked naval frigate the Méduse.
A thousand thanks, Kurtz.
1 comment:
good words.
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