Monday, July 31, 2017

Some Old Friends Spark Joy (Whilst Kondo-ing My Library)

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Elvis approves READ THIS POST ON THE NEW PLATFORM, WWW.MADAM-MAYO.COM I moved. And of course, this involved oodles of Kondo-ing. For...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Roopa Pai Decodes the Bhagavad Gita, the Holy Book that Predates Organized Religion

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The other day a Mexican Spiritist author sent me some questions about how Spiritism influenced  Francisco I. Madero  as the leader of Mexi...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Yummy Posts from Julys of Yore

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U. Quetzalpugtl and W. Quetzalpugalotl consider a possible yummy. This week, with my writing assistants, I am Kondo-ing the office. He...
Monday, July 10, 2017

My Great Great Great Uncle, De Witt Clinton Boutelle, Painter of the Hudson River School

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Untitled (Hudson River Landscape with Indian) 1848 De Witt Clinton Boutelle Chrysler Museum of Art Apart from trying to finish my book...
Monday, June 26, 2017

"Dispatch from the Sister Republic or, Papelito Habla" A Longform Essay About the Mexican Literary Landscape and the Power of the Book

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Get this essay about the Mexican literary landscape  and the power of the book in KINDLE My extra-crunchy long essay on the Mexican l...

Recent and Current Reading: Cather, Bogard, Kunstler, Padilla, Abbey

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The Professor's House by Willa Cather In one of the strangest, most elegant and powerful novels I have ever read, Cather combs apart...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Tulpa Max or, Notes on the Afterlife of a Resurrection (On the 150th Anniversary of the Execution of Maximilian von Habsburg)

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Letras Libres , one of Mexico's finest magazines, has a special section in this month's issue which includes, I am delighted to re...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Daniel Yergin's THE PRIZE, M. King Hubbert, Medieval Smokestacks & Etc. (Plus Cyberflanerie)

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Finally I finished reading Daniel Yergin's brilliant and necessary  The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power ,  a  doorsto...
Monday, June 05, 2017

Five Video Poems to Watch

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Once in a chartreuse moon I concoct a little video... (my latest is this one about the controversial statue at the El Paso airport ). Mainly...
Monday, May 29, 2017

"For the Vivid Dreamer": Notes from my Workshop on Nature and Travel Writing in the Glorious Guadalupe Mountains National Park

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El Capitan from the Pine Springs Station, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas This past weekend for my workshops as artist-in-resi...