LISTENING TO THE BREATH OF NEW MEXICO
Taos Pueblo, Native American song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8-miNPmlwE Mescalero Apache War Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pef6ktVa_6o Squaw Dance Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJz6oFcEFg Flamenco Dance Performance in Sandoval County, New Mexico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-b0o0GRw4c Gene Booth New Mexico’s Country Music Legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inz23hC6wUcù
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He simply tells how he thinks things were for both Indians and whites, in a hard time of violence and danger and change on a raw frontier. He was an American novelist, whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. Conrad Michael Richter, as a child, he lived with his family in several …
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EVENING IN NEW MEXICO – Poetry by Andrew Downing Far off the Rio Grande crawls, a silver serpent in the sand. And sweetly, softly, slowly falls the shade of twilight on the land. The mockingbird, that all the day has piped, entangling note with note, in merry song, and roundelay, has quelled the lyrics in his throat. In meditation, buried …
Read More »THE ROUTE 66 IN NEW MEXICO – Among the Hopi, Zuni and Navajo, waiting for the sunrise over El Morro
California and Arizona are behind us. Driving along Route 66, we have not forgotten what is useful, walking on the roads of New Mexico (one of the places to be discovered across the continent most fascinating American States and wealthy): backpack, water bottle filled with water, hat and a good map. Its capital, Santa Fe, is a multicultural city that …
Read More »RUDOLPH CARL GORMAN (1931/2005), NAVAJO PAINTER – Fluid forms and vibrant colors
SOUNDS AND COLOURS OF ARIZONA
HARMONICA ” ARIZONA ” Country Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MYfV-QIv4U Sky Blue, Young Sounds of Arizona 7 O’Clock Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwpz4wAnEwo Alabama Shakes – Don’t Wanna Fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5OX7CO26c Memoryhouse – Arizona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqbatT32qQQ
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OUTLANDER – Novel by Diana Gabaldon
Currently she lives in Scottsdale (Arizona), with her husband – they have three adult children – (but also with two big, fat dachshunds, 2.5 cats, a varying number of parakeets and a lot of uninvited wildlife). Diana J. Gabaldon is an American author, known for the Outlander series of novels. Her books merge multiple genres, featuring elements of historical fiction, …
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HEATHROW, IN TRANSIT – By James Watters The warmth of Nairobi in January is gone now. Here it’s cold and drizzly, a savannah of tarmac and metal jumbos before me. My natural rhythms have given way, to this soaring erratic chase of the sun. But I return to warmth, the desert heat of southern Arizona, and the ardent glow, of …
Read More »EVERYONE BRINGS ON ITS FACE THE DUST OF THE ROAD HE DID – Route 66, eastbound. After California, Arizona
“Everyone brings on its face the dust of the road he did.” This is what to us remember, with a wise proverb, the native Indians of North America. Starting to Route 66 http://meetingbenches.com/2016/08/ready-for-the-big-adventure-choose-your-kicks-on-route-66/ on our face we have the memory of California, a special imprint http://meetingbenches.com/2016/08/inner-landscapes-california/ made of views and music, a book, and poems but also some pictures, along …
Read More »BETWEEN FUTURISMO AND METAPHYSIC – The extraordinary creative journey of Primo Conti
PRIMO CONTI 1/3 – 1911 is the year of his artistic debut, along with the youth studies on the human figure, the precocious interest for the Fauve art, a prelude to the brilliant futurist. He has been able to receive the most alive and fruitful moods of Futurism, creating a fresh paint and filled with poetry. Always ready to question …
Read More »PRIMO CONTI (1900/1988), ITALIAN PAINTER – The illuminated color craftsmanship
INNER LANDSCAPES – Italy
AUTHOR’S SUGGESTIONS IN SICILY – In ancient Greek amphitheater in Taormina and Tindari, to listen to the distant Mediterranean suggestions
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