Update about blog

Dawn 7:01 Mountain Time Aug 15, 2026. Marking the sun coming over the mountains behind my apartment on the smoke stack of the Powerhouse.
Showing posts with label Columbus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Columbus. Show all posts

Thursday, February 26, 2026

How we lived back then...

 Our ancestors, that is.


Model of home in settlement of Çatal Hüyük; (from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") It is a tell (a mounded accretion resulting from long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 5600 BC and flourished around 7000 BC, Turkey (Thanks Wikipedia)

See a post earlier about Archaeology, one of my interests! 

Clay goddess figurine from the Early Chalcolithic period ca 5000-4500 BC, found at the archaeological site of Durankulak, Bulgaria.


It's interesting to see what has been made of clay, stone and bone. Fiber arts, even clothes of skins, unfortunately just don't survive through  the ages.


The Columbus Hypocrisy (and all Western European explorers/invaders).



Justice is often difficult to find.

But just look at all your ancestors!


You do the math...we're all related!

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. 

-Steven Brust, novelist (b. 23 Nov 1955)


Arundhati Roy once said, “There’s no voiceless, there’s only the deliberately silenced, you know, or the purposely unheard.”

Sunday, October 7, 2012

For my Canadian friends

 

Happy Thanksgiving dear blogger friends in Canada!  I'm so glad that your holiday occurs on the same day as our holiday celebrating Columbus landing in the western hemisphere.