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Prickly Pears
Eric Robertson
12/25/09
Christmas day was spent at Leah's parent's house in Castro Valley. This has become a tradition along with a walk down the hill behind their house. There is an open area there surrounded by woods. A flock of turkeys can often be seen strolling by in a long, slow line or foraging in the dirt and leaves. If disturbed they trot away or fly into the trees. There are deer, including a large antlered buck, that live back there too.
Crows
Eric Robertson
11/25/09
I took this photo in Point Reyes Station a few days before Thanksgiving. It was a foggy morning. I noticed a school bus coming up the hill and children at the elementary school and I felt good, like I was playing hooky since my school was already out for vacation. Weekdays are always nicer to have off when everyone else is still working, when I can move slowly and everyone else around me is moving fast.
Roly Polies
Eric Robertson
12/13/09
Roly Polies, also called Pill Bugs, are neat little creatures that I remember from early childhood for their ability to roll up into perfect little balls. The related Sow Bug looks the same but can't quite roll into a ball. I remember finding these as a kid, too. Not knowing that Sow Bugs and Pill Bugs are actually different, I wondered what their problem was or that I had only imagined these creatures could actually roll into a ball. I also thought that maybe I'd found some Roly Polies that were old and arthritic, like older humans who could no longer touch their toes.
Outline of Agroecological movie
Clifton Ross
Agroecology and the Past before Us
Directed by Clifton Ross
“In the Andean Cosmovision the past is not behind us, but rather before us.”
Armando López
Directed by Clifton Ross
“In the Andean Cosmovision the past is not behind us, but rather before us.”
Armando López
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A Loan Application Scenario
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Three executives of the big automakers come to Washington to apply for federal loans, hats in hands. Let's call the federal loan officer Big Sam. Coming to the loan officer's table they have shown humility traveling by car instead of company jets. By arriving in cars their companies have manufactured they show thriftiness and pride in their business. Still, Sam likes to know that they have jets. In the loan business these assets are called collateral.
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Reparations for Slavery
Eric Robertson
I was thinking about those 700,000,000,000 dollars that are to be spread out among the corporations to ostensibly help out the "American worker". Is it corporate welfare or should we be kind and call it trickle-down economics on a grand scale?
It got me to thinking about those workers who never got paid in this country--specifically, those of African descent brought to this country to labor the fields and build the empire.
President of the United States
Eric Robertson
Whatever you think of two party politics, it will be great to have a president in office that is smart, diplomatic, graceful and articulate. And I've already noticed some people starting to look at each other differently. Weren't we supposed to get a "kindler, gentler nation" a few years back?
