‘Cover Stories’ Archives
Traveler, there is no path
By Antonio Machado (26 July 1875 ”“ 22 February 1939) Everything goes and everything stays but our fate is to pass to pass making a path as we go, paths over the sea, I never pursued glory, or to leave on the memory of the men,this my song: I love the subtle worlds, weightless and gentle like soap bubbles. I like to see them paint themselves on sun and crimson, fly under a blue sky shudder suddenly, and break... I never pursued glory. Traveler , your footprints are the path, and nothing else. Traveler, there is no path. A path is made by walking. A path is made by walking, and in looking back one sees the trodden road that never will be set foot on again. Traveler, there is no path, but wakes on the sea... Some time ago on that place where today the woods dress in brambles the voice of a poet was heard shouting ¨Traveler, there is no path. A path is made by walking”. Blow by blow, verse by verse... The poet died far from [...]
THE ARTISTS: of the “Together We Grow” Mural. Read by the author at the Mural Dedication Saturday Oct. 26
By Patrick Cabello Hansel Jesse”'s hat is near as old as the street itself, and Greta”'s pants have more paint than pant to them. Claudia”'s had her daily dose of mate, and Vicky has on every piece of clothing she owns. They”'re all on the wall today, and tomorrow will be joined, maybe by Lizete, or Sandy, or Blanca or Leon or Ron or Kestrel or Fatima or Rafael or Marcela or any one of a cast of thousands, seen and unseen. They are making a wall shine. They are making a street sing Behind each tile is a story, broken and cemented one to another: a journey across the desert, a land stolen and chopped into squares, a child who cannot speak but can touch the sky with her dream. Behind each stone, a fingertip. Behind each fingertip, a prayer. Walls hold people in and weather out. Walls divide us from them, good from evil, home from journey, life from a life lived fully. Go ahead. Touch a piece of broken blue. See yourself in the [...]
AIM & ACLU ask for equality and respect
Alley Collaborated News The Minnesota NFL football team opposes the Washington D.C. football team on November 7th.. The American Indian Movement says the term “Redskins” should not be used in connection with that game being played in a public facility, said movement national director Clyde Bellecourt. “We”'re saying that the ”˜r”' word is no different than the ”˜n”' word,” he said. Seeing derogatory logos and hearing vicious taunts from fans “has a tremendous psychological effect on our children,” Bellecourt said. “Would they have a mascot here called Little Black Sambo? Oh, no.” Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune wrote in 1992 “The Washington Redskins are the only big time professional sports team whose name is an unequivocal racial slur. After all, how would we react if the team was named the Washington Negroes? Or the Washington Jews? It is more than just a racial reference, it is a racial [...]
