The car radio said Tony Hillerman had died on Sunday in an Albquerque hopspital, aged 83, and we stayed in the car after pulling into the garage to hear the full story.
Memory took me back a few years to Anne in that city and the invitation she’d received to attend a gala function honoring Hillerman. [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Invitation to Hillerman
Posted in Uncategorized on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Navel of the world
Posted in Uncategorized on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The official center of the world, would you know it, is in California, near the Arizona border, the spot marked by a pyramid. And I found it while trying to take a picture of a church on a hill.
A lonely white church on a hill had long attracted me as a good subject for photography, [...]
Native Obama
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Fascinating to hear Barack Obama’s name declaimed in an Apache language spiel — and to hear each mention of his name jubilated by the clamor of horns from 40 or so cars of approving listeners. The Obama rally by the White River Democrats was in full swing in the heartland of the Apache nation in [...]
Dominique
Posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An exciting call from Trinidad: Danielle LeGendre is heading to England for the world premier on October 11 of an opera for which daughter Dominique has written the music. An email from Skye with information from the Nicky Thomas media consultancy in the U.K filled out the information.
Seems that the Royal Opera House concertmaster had [...]
