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 home
and is covered by the dust of a neighboring country.
As he went away, he could be heard crying,
“Traveler, there is no path.… Read the rest “Traveler, there is no path”

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 cracked mirror. Underline
your tongue with a word of “ah!”

This wall is your wall.
This wall is my wall.
This wall was made for you and me.… Read the rest “THE ARTISTS: of the “Together We Grow” Mural. Read by the author at the Mural Dedication Saturday Oct. 26”

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 epithet.”

The Metropolitan Sports Authority has heard concerns about the team”'s name in the past, and the Minnesota chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union issued a statement calling for the Vikings, the media and the authority to refer to the team as “Washington.”

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