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Chimayo – Aug 2008 – 03

Image by Ed Yourdon

These pictures were taken during a field trip to the Chimayo church/sanctuary, approx 30 miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico — slightly east of Española.

At the suggestion of the instructor of our photography workshop, I converted this original version of this photo from color to black-and-white; you can see the B/W version here . I also experimented with a sepia version, but think I like the original color best of all…

During this field trip, we had an assignment from our instructor: imagine that you were going to be placed in a spaceship and sent off into space for the rest of your life, with no return. Imagine that the spaceship would provide food, water, and life-sustaining resources, but nothing else — no TV, no Internet, no toys, no color, no nuthin’. Given that sterile environment, take/make ten photographs that you would take along with you, which would sustain you for the rest of your life.

I failed miserably: I only found three opportunities for such photos — this photograph that you’re looking at now, this one, and this one . Since my family was not in Santa Fe with me, I couldn’t take pictures of them (I thought it would be cheating to take a screen-shot of something pulled up from my computer’s photo-archives); so all I could think of to do was to take photos that would be so evocative that they would be guaranteed to provide memories of things that were important to me…

The motivation for this photograph was fairly simple: if I were going to be stuck in an empty spaceship, with nothing but my memories for the rest of my life, I would want (among other things) to remember the happy parts of my childhood — of which there were many. Among the best memories of my childhood were the hours spent wandering, alone, through forests and woods in the various parts of the American West where I grew up — in Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, California. I would often spend hours sitting at the edge of a babbling brook like this one, just enjoying the sound — and sometimes tossing a fishing line out into the water, hoping that I might be lucky enough to catch a trout.

During this particular afternoon in Chimayo, it was dark, cloudy, and even a little rainy, most of the time; but there were a few moments of sunshine, and one of them caught the leaves of this tree in a nice way … and voila! there was my memory, ready to take along on the spaceship.

Note: this photo was published in an Apr 17, 2009 blog titled "正面心理金字塔." It was also published in an Apr 17, 2009 blog titled "Positive Psychology Pyramid."

Lincolnshire Fact

Image by judge_mental

Lincoln natives are mostly unaware they are accumulating a somatic burden from the local fertiliser factory.

But tell them and they quickly develop psychological defences to such facts, similar to the excuses you hear from smokers.

So thanks to Lincolnshire County Council for providing this page where you can send in your very own Lincolnshire Fact.

Fluoride-dispensing Charlie Ireland’s swansong as Council Chairman was to end a special meeting – after four minutes – about whether the Council’s Leader should be sacked for not attending meetings (he’d been in prison).

The reason the meeting was unnecessary? Councillor Speechley had been released just in time, and had arrived at the meeting, wearing his electronic tag.

Of course only bland, innocuous facts, harmless to the fluorocratic machine, will actually make it onto the website.

As all public participation in the Council’s democratic affairs is pointless, further contributions on this theme are as pointless as any other.

If you are a fan of this kind of activity, why not join me by picking and submitting some fluoride facts of your own to the Council?

While there are only two pro-fluoride "facts", whose endless repetition has rendered them threadbare to all except the most enthusiastically deadbrained, there are literally thousands of the other kind, and far more interesting they are too.

Why would appeals to the County Council, which did not initiate fluoridation and has no jurisdiction over drinking water, be relevant?

When fluoridated drivers bang into one another, it is on the Council’s roads.

The Council’s fluoridated police are also called when fluoridated criminals, possibly addicts suffering from ADHD, slip into their old people’s homes – full of Alzheimer’s patients – to rob the residents.

The Council is so up to its ears in it all that it had to fiddle its budget.

I am sure you can see from this that any appeal to this authority for a reduction in the population’s toxic load is a thoroughly misguided one.

What on earth would the fluorocrats do with themselves if all these matters became more manageable?

Send your Lincolnshire fluoride fact here

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