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Prairie dogs and language
By
Gus diZerega
Sabina Magliocco brought this site on prairie dog language up on her Facebook site. It’s great. Turns out that a whole lot more is going on with prairie dogs than any Westerner ever thought. And if this is true for prairie dogs, think of how true it is likely to be for a great many…
Traditional Yaqui Prayer at Tucson memorial service
By
Gus diZerega
While I have been no Obama fan for a long time, his speech at Tucson’s memorial service for those murdered by Jared Loughner was wonderful. But this was even more a community event more than a national event. One of the less mentioned but I think important features of this service was the opening prayer by…
Alex Mar’s “American Mystic” – a beautiful film
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Gus diZerega
Alex Mar has produced American Mystic, a beautiful and most unusual film, one I hope receives many viewers, for many will be the better off for having seen it. In her film Mar describes the lives of spiritually committed people living outside the American spiritual mainstream. She does so sensitively and entirely in their own…
Happy New Year and the Day of Iemanja
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Gus diZerega
I got up this morning and after my injection of caffeine picked up some molasses and corn meal and drove to Portuguese Beach to make my annual offering to Iemanja, Orixa of the ocean. It was a cold. grey, blustery day, and the coast was even colder and more blustery. Almost no one was out.…
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