A Canary

Neither seen nor touched. Generally colorless, odorless, and tasteless. Neither solid nor liquid. Difficult to detect. We believe it exists.

It has a very low density and viscosity. As the ratio of its components change we sicken. Most changes in it are detrimental to our health.

It makes our biosphere possible. Its name is a word for breath.

We know that we can do better than to judge it by our sickness and death. We have used the sickening and death of animals to judge it, but know that we can do better.

We know that changes in its temperature causes great changes in its density, diffusion, and distribution, but are often careless of this knowledge.

We know elements of it are very reactive and are constantly interacting with everything in our biosphere.

It carries matter and material, bacteria and virus. It carries vapor, water, and ice. You are putting stuff into it now.

It changes form moment to moment and eon to eon.

Within a narrow range it supports human life and nearly all life here.

We have describe its pure nature and now a bit about its optimum nature.

Public Health

You pay for it.

It is the institution for preventing disease and promoting health. You have a relationship with institutions, organizations, and individuals of public health.

Check Wikipedia on the www to get a nice overview of public health.

Decide how you will visit your local health deparment. You might get travel innoculations there.

Check out the United States Public Health Service on the www; move on to check out the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Then you could check-out the world Health Organization, WHO, at the UN site.

Let us know what you find.

You may find that you are developing a curiosity about polotical or economic aspects of public health, or even of global mental health.

Bring us somthing curious or life saving.

Our War Our Economy

When we have called this Bush's war of Bush's economy we have been fools and cowardly. It has been our war and our economy so long as we have been Americans.

It was us who ignored Clinton's suggestion that we re-train our work-force. It was us who did not teach our children how to take their part in our politically responsible social organizations. It was us who let Reagan lead a dismantling of the oversight system which cost our father's so much to build. It was us who supported the killing of dogs, cats, children and women of Koreans, Panamanians, Cambodians, Nicaraguans, Laotians, Guatemalans, Mexicans, Germans and others in their own land in their homes in their own lands. We were responsible and we are responsible.

Have we paid the devil to smile?

Are we willing to discuss alternatives?

It's All True!

Our interpretation is imperfect.

We need to improve our understanding.

Embrace reality.

Bandelier National Monument

Bandelier has a long human history and links to modern Pueblos. Find it in the 'land of enchantment."

Click on www.nps.gov/band to learn more.

Introduction to 1823 -1826 in California

I'm beginning to post a series of notes I've made while reading The Romero Expeditions 1823-1826 by Bean and Mason. This somewhat rare work was published for the Palm Springs Desert Museum by the Ward and Fitchie Press pf Los Angeles in 1962. Double quotations marks show my use of the authors words.


The wealth of the early Californios was in their cattle and horses. The Yuma 'rebellion' had closed California to large scale importation of livestock. Before the Yuma uprisings a few cattle and horses had bee brought up for the tiny military force mostly on the coast.

The opening of the Anza rout made 'the days of the Don's' possible. The rout made immigration and large scale importation of cattle possible. Cattle were used to pay to pay off military veterans. After 1781 there were large herds and abundant cattle in the California province.

By the end of Spanish rule in 1822 the total population of California, exclusive of Indians, was only about 3500. California, at that time, was more isolated from Europe the east coast of North America, and Mexico City than was Manila and had been accessible only by sea for forty years.

"As a result of the war of independence in Mexico, no money or supplies were sent to California after 1811 and a series of rebellions in Mexico from 1810 through 1821 prevented the Government for sending help to California. " From 1817 until 1821, .....Trade with Russian, Americans, Englishmen and others was practiced." It was during this period raw hides became know as California dollars.

Governors of California suggested that trade and colonization between California and New Mexico would benefit both provinces. Pedro Fages who governed between 1783 and 1791 and Diego do Borica who governed between 1791 and 1793 are examples. Their recommendations included mention of routs laid out by Fages, Anza, Rivera and others.

After 1815 Spain's control of trade with California was strongly challenged and even her sea rout from San Blas to California was threatened. From 1780 to 1820 Russia, the United States, and Great Britain firmly established trading posts all along the Pacific Coast of North America. Illegal prate-like attacks were mad on Spanish settlements. Raids by Bouchard and Cochraine are examples of such attacks.

Popol Vuh Wisdom Road

~ Using your skills and resources ready yourself to put your thoughts into action.
~ Be discreet, courteous, and honor your roots.
~ Master the arts you have a talent for and develop your wit as best you may.
~ Make the lives of those near you more bearable.
~ Do as you wish, if it be just.
~ Be up righteous and law abiding.

I suspect that gloves, balls, trained coyotes, honeyed water, blowguns, beards, and green eyes existed in the land we call Mexico before the Spanish conquest.

Unwilling

We are so unwilling to pay that we enslave our children and our republic to bond holders.

We are so unwilling to govern that we have no foreign policy, no domestic policy, no economic policy, no military policy, no education policy.