On Food & Culture
Yesterday I visited Casa Juan Diego where hurricane survivors are still receiving assistance with food, medicine and transportation. Latinas and Latinos were not present at the Astrodome. Their story is one of no information, no access to US government resources, no access to Red Cross …
Rodrigo in Chile , with other University “apasionados” of opensource software, is working on aFirefox for Chile. Their vision is to join a growing community of techies, hackers, business people to continue developing more and more free and open software for Latin America and other …
Last night at our Museum of Fine Arts I saw the gripping 2 1/2 hour version of this documentary, “The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.” It was introduced by the director/writer, Adam Curtis. Curtis presents: all the cases that Bush’s …
I read about the people who died during the Houston Rita evacuation that I had been caught in last week. It’s very sad. Then later as I was driving to the doctor’s office, I heard this poem on the radio and it linked me to …
Glory Dharmaraj has written a reflection about the recent natural catastrophes. “God’s Presence Amidst Natural Calamity” presents a natural sense of global community, grounded in a living, palpable faith. As Dr. Dharmaraj says, “The church ‘happens’ there right before our eyes.” AM
The arrest just a few hours ago of Cindy Sheehan and others in front of the white house is an opportunity for us to use the Internet forcefully to gather support to end our Iraq occupation. I’ve just written our 2 Texas Senators telling them …
This slogan was on a sign in Crawford, Texas when I was there supporting and joining Cindy Sheehan’s protest of our Iraq invasion. Bush vacationed in, then fled his Crawford ranch to avoid her. He did it again yesterday, flying to Austin to view the …
Just walked in my garden, sun shining, light breeze in the air. Although the city has experienced power loss in thousands of homes as a result of downed power lines, my house has electrical power, no damage to trees at all. Rita spared Houston, just …
Good news is my focus right now in the shelter. First, I’ve got access to WiFi and was able to bring my laptop on my backpack. It’s good to have another communication option, along with my battery-operated radio. It looks like we will have lesser …
I was unable to evacuate. After ten hours on Interstate 10 headed for San Antonio and safety (My hometown, so I have lots of family there), the highway became immobile. It became a completely stalled parking lot. Traffic was moving at the rate of one …