Weekly Writing Prompt #95 The smile in your eyes is more than all the fame in this sick world, For I long left to others the bitter taste of the fight except the one for you, whose shadow I will follow to the end of time... Image: Tucson Museum of Modern Art, Arizona
Arizona
Flourish #TheDailyPost #WritersWednesday
Publish a new post on your blog interpreting the theme... Since their land was so inhospitable to foreign eyes, they retained their freedom longer than those tribes whose territory the predators desired, and plundered. Little did the invaders knew that the old prophecy had been tested: they were imposters, their creed a fraud, their ignoble … Continue reading Flourish #TheDailyPost #WritersWednesday
Earth #TheDailyPost
Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt. "We'll be fine here," she says, looking to the horizon and the melting ochres of the desert. I acquiesce: not only this is a blessed land, but we also know the people here, they are our friends, they have adopted us, and they will bury … Continue reading Earth #TheDailyPost
November retreat #WritersWednesday #amwriting
The place suited them, him, and his owl. The owl too loved the wilderness, the immense skies, the many creatures who inhabited the desert. They had their routine. Before their night visit to the mountain, he would dismantle his weapon, in total obscurity, a puerile exercise practised eons ago, in the academy. Then, slowly, his long … Continue reading November retreat #WritersWednesday #amwriting
#FiveSentenceFiction: Fresh
We drove from Flagstaff, and took Route 89 North, under the volcano, our sights on the snow capped San Francisco range. Soon, in the direction of the Wupatki ruins, home of the Water clan, we saw the Painted Desert in its splendour, stretching as a thin rainbow on the horizon. We stopped at the Sunset Crater: there you … Continue reading #FiveSentenceFiction: Fresh
Hopivotskani: the Path of the Hopis #Arizona #Hopis #FourthWorld
This text is an extract from Nancy J. Parezo's "Emergence to the Fourth World", in Paths of Life, American Indians of the Southwest and Northern Mexico, The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. In the beginning, Tawa, the sun spirit and father, impregnated Mother Earth, who gave birth to living things. These people, animals, and insects lived … Continue reading Hopivotskani: the Path of the Hopis #Arizona #Hopis #FourthWorld
Of Glass & Paper 