Duchess Of Alba

She-who-must-be-obeyed was perusing the NY Times...

(I call it the Nī Tī - I mention that even though you could care less. I refer to the Xinhua of China as Xin Xin, and nobody cares, either.
Le Figaro of France is il Barbieri, and Al Jazeera is  D'j'a read uh?, as in "Did you read it?" , which is supposed to be a joke - not one person has laughed yet - based on the Arabic word for "newspaper" Jareeda.)

and she mentioned that the Duchess of Alba had passed.

I said that I had seen a photo of her earlier, and she looked like a crazed Ruth Gordon. I hesitated briefly before adding that when I said "crazed Ruth Gordon", I was not being redundant.

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Los Olvidados

Forgotten and rarely heard from are the villages and populations of Native inhabitants who are mostly ignored by us, their overlords. When is the last time you heard news about them? Other than killings and drug and alcohol abuse specials, they are los olvidados, the forgotten ones.

I think we should take a look at them, for their state is our future of wealth and power inequity...

Anyway, in the BBC
there are pictures, and a story:

Police in Colombia have driven members of an indigenous group from a strategic mountain top they were occupying.

More than 20 people were injured in the clashes in Cauca province, in Colombia's south-west.
Nasa tribesmen had taken the army post on Cerro Berlin on Tuesday and forced the soldiers stationed there to leave.
The Nasa say they are tired of being caught in the middle of confrontations between the security forces and members of the Farc rebel group.

Somos todos el tribu Nasa.
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In Which C. A. Jeffrey Returns

A reprint from the past, honoring the recent return of C.A. Jeffrey (I always call her C.A. Jeffrey as if I were working for the #1 Ladies Detective Agency in Botswana). She is a wonderful painter, one of whose works I have in my study. Her mother passed last year, and our condolences went out to her.

Here is my version of her painting with her aunt, titled C.A. Jeffrey Gets A Flat, one in a series of my studies of great artists with flat tires:



C.A. Jeffrey happens to like coffee a good deal.

pic: http://cajeffrey.blogspot.com/

(without the flat tire)