history: May 2006 Archives

It seems I just deleted or otherwise erased the entire contents of six years of email. Yes, I did backup...a few months ago?

Wow. Want to start a new life? :-/

And then there are the vagaries of memory. I've been sorting and organizing memorabilia, trying to put things in chronological order. How often did I misdate things? Not sure, but some years definitely seem incorrect. Sequencing? Sketchy. In one instance, there's my written version and someone else's written version of the same event. Different!

I'm a bit numb with the loss. I had envisioned a certain texturing of the written documentation of my life, thoughts, processes, etc. I know it's not ALL gone; just the most recent several months, but gosh - it's a shock. Or, maybe I'm not numb? Wouldn't that be a change! Perhaps the half-dozen deletions of blog comments have inured me to this eventuality?

As Little Brother said upon departure a few days ago, there have been "so many goodbyes." Me too, to people, places, and hoped-for futures.

I leave this space tomorrow. It's been good for me. Who knows what the next one will bring?

One of my students is soaking up Cannes and Al Gore (!) is making waves at Sundance. Funny, as Cole just asked who might run for President on the Democratic side...Hillary of course, I read about a Senator from Virginia whose name I forgot, and I mentioned that Gore might try again. It's a new campaign style: provide serious information in a format that allows it. Will the public respond to an educational movie geared to adults?

"Cinco de Mayo is actually a commemoration of a victory by Mexican troops in La Batalla de Puebla more that fifty years later, on May 5, 1862 . . . . La Batalla de Puebla was the first time that the Mexican pueblo could rally around a common cause and proudly proclaim, «¡Yo soy Mexicano!" Chicanos in the US celebrate Cinco de Maya for its cultural and patriotic significance - "victory in the face of great odds." In Mexico the day of Independence, September 16th, is of more import.

This link was shared by Ximena Zúñiga, newly tenured faculty in the Social Justice Program.