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hen we started the magazine way back in 2004, my wife and I would still travel back to our old stomping grounds every Christmas season. I’m not sure if Chuck and Jenny or Chuck Whitney had many family commitments out of state way back in the day, but we sure did. We’d pack up our Jetta (2002-2003) or Subaru Outback (2004-2008) and head east at 80 mph – hopefully making it in time for extended family Christmas parties and the Christmas Eve service at church. We’d only stay a week or so, but with the magazine deadline always falling at the end of the month, this trip back to Michigan didn’t look like it could continue. I’m not sure which of us had the idea for the Arts Edition, but it was brilliant. It gave us more flexibility in our deadlines for the month and also gave our monthly writers a bit of a break. On top of that, we loved getting artistic submissions from the community. We’ve had some incredible stuff in the Arts Edition and this year is no different. Please enjoy the talents you’ll see and read in the following pages; maybe you’ll even think about contributing yourself next year. Although the trip back to Michigan during the Christmas season has been discontinued, the Arts Edition lives on. Enjoy and Happy New Year! NH

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Contributors Jonathan Adok Mary Alexander Lynn R. Anner-Bolieu Rex Begay Franklin Bryant Ernie Bulow Sanjay Choudhrie Alyssia Cupp Gretchen Dekker Jill Farkas Terry Goodin Tana Haveman Patti Hays T.B. Hudson Laura Jijon Marcus Martza Jay Mason Kitty Mason Susan McNabb Alexandria Patterson Vladimiro Pino Gerald Pinto Redwulf Dancing Bare Eric-Paul Riege Lisa Rodriguez Bob Rosebrough Ophelia Ruddle Michelle Sanchez Dylan Solomon Standing Feather John Lewis Taylor Ervin Tsosie Betsy Windisch

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Best of Gallup Winners Thoughts Sudoku El Morro Schedule Izzit?! G-TOWN, 87301 Community Calendar People Reading ArtsCrawl Schedule

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A Journal

Rex Begay

When the void still wore black The bang brought its rebellion And chaos fathered our existence The void smiled with flecks of light Stars breathed countless Together with time Stepping patient Marching the cadence that all gods march A step ahead of the trillion steps to come

Moon Over the Hogback By Mary Alexander

Time watched As a great collision greeted The birth of our world The perfect combination of elements Fell to an infant surface Already billions of years old And became the single cell organism That started our journal

Bright orb, a lady consort and guide sublime, Filtering the obscure. Nascent allure a rhapsody of enchantment. 11/13

Laws were laid As unbroken as it began Linking its chain as earth’s history Appointing evolution as nature’s god To govern the survival or extinction Of the thousands of species that came and went

Winter’s Gift By Jay Mason

Not too long ago the first winter wind cut like a knife, It reminded me of this cold world filled with so much strife, And now that winter has come to stay, I wonder why I live in this desolate place;

Time watches In the ripples left By its perpetual trek Through its siblings dark robe And life blinks away In an instant As infinity blossoms

I long for the warm breezes of Southern climes That ease the heart and clear the mind. Then I remember what this season gives, It forces me inside to think about how I live, To have the time to consider my plight And mend the ills that plague me late at night; And if I choose to go outside then I must plan and prepare to go To see the beauty of the cold with its smooth blanket of snow. So I don’t despair but build a fire to warm my heart Then recall the good acts that I soon will start When bitter winds are long gone And ice and snow are finally done. I use the fire to cleanse my soul And thank my God for His gift of cold.

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Spacewalking White, middle class, separated Spacewalking Take a step / nothing underneath Grand Union Supermarket four years ago The day is so bitterly cold that the store is freezing I cannot remember a more depressing day in all our lives My son has lost his job My friend has little money I take out the food stamps to pay for the food The three of us will celebrate anyway being together / clinging together Back in the spaceship for awhile

Prayer of Hope By Ervin Tsosie

Woke with a smile, ready to take on the day Thought about you when I closed my eyes to pray How happy I am and lucky I must be When I picture your face and the smile I see

By Lynn R. Anner-Bolieu of Juniper Hills, NM While at Glenmary Research Center, Atlanta Sunday within the Octave of the Epiphany, 1988 5 months before graduating from Yale Divinity School

He has answered my prayer and obeyed my request When I asked for sympathy and gave nothing less When he has decided to bless me and shed light With the rays of hope and the will to fight With the power in his heart and the motion of his hand He has revived my life and set up a plan To heal my heart and strip the sorrow To allow me to cherish today and have hope for tomorrow His special gift has touched my heart, Piecing it back together and not leaving it torn apart My soul is blessed and my heart has hope Allowing me strength so with life I may cope Never in my dreams and my wildest imagination There was not a sign or any indication Of a strong soul and heart I would find And with hope and prayers the heart I may one day call mine

Dream Spirits By Pati Hays

What place is this, Where abandoned dreams Sift and roll like dust Through the empty chambers As a low lingering sigh Breaths through the trees?

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Crew

By Tana Haveman and Ophelia Ruddle, 2nd grade Happy not sad We are a crew and we’re glad You feel important when in a crew You’re lucky to be in a crew helpful, strong and loving you For something this nice you’re special indeed We’ll need you for all eternity

The One I Love

By Franklin Bryant I sincerely feel the heart of my life Through her eyes, I see life’s permutation Like mother nature tranquilizes the land with beauty Through the sun it sees The love of one and only Fingers touching making a heart Forever we hold, till the days end Love with joyful reliance Lusciousness that holds together with love Light and darkness combined is strong in nature Kindles through blue skies With beatitude that we share Sadness hits the ground We both cry tears from our eyes Bestow for both our hearts That convey in the air we breathe The mountain cries through the rivers See two quixotic eagles fighting in the sky Conquest together is love with knowledge Agilely we both look toward the future ahead Love each harmony Noble and mature that’s still in us Nature creates life that holds us together Life is hardship Then it makes us stronger with love and speculation To hold each other forever

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On My ESL Class Writing Poetry

Laura Jijon Words pour out. Sometimes like milk into a child’s cup, or rainwater from a bucket, or sometimes, like lava oozing along a volcanic slope, or tears glistening along a weathered cheek, or sometimes, like blood seeping from a wound. Phrases are formed. Sometimes like silver hammered into jewelry, or flour, yeast, salt and water measured into dough, or seeds of corn sown in small mounds, or shrubs pruned, or sometimes, like wild horses herded into a corral. Poems take flight, lifting off the page and rising on our breath like dry leaves on an autumn wind, dust in the spring. Poems soaring, like an eagle or a condor . . . or a sparrow. Poems rising like bread or heat, or the Heart in Love, the Spirit in Death.

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With The Earth’s Next Rotation By T.B. Hudson

The Navajo woman waits After her shift at the fast food W.A.S.T.E. She just wants to dream Next to her kids in cartoon pajamas, But he doesn’t drive in from home To pick her up again. It’s the apocalyptic story Of the waiting game. No reply comes From the smart phone she bought him. Now she waits. At the zero hour, The walk home is never too safe. Cat calls and twisted clowns in SUVs cruise her by. She hopes she can make it To the trailer court Before the wormwood bars let out. Hoping for a text to vibrate, Now she waits. The trailer is dark and cold When she gets home. He forgot to turn on the heater Again. The casino card is gone and the dishes

Transvestites

By Standing Feather Who we want to be and who we think we are dance together around a small fire – a flickering fire that has moved part of its life and its breath to the back of its space to smolder. In the darkness of the suffocating mystery, the flickers are content enough to accept that the beauty they thought they might be able to hold – as who they were – has faded into a place that only the seedlings of a future stir can relate to and use.

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The knowledge I seek about myself inside has been revealed differently from what I had hoped, and the vision of myself and who I am is foreign to me, like a mask looking in the mirror to remember itself. Under the mask I place my face now, and my eyes squint to see, and I squirm at the reflection. My understanding of what I see lies bludgeoned to purple next to the indifference of my ability to change it. In Provincetown, a yearly event the locals call the tall girls convention hosts men who dream about their lives

Are still on the table. The girls are bundled up On the double-sized bed. She turns on all the lights And the country music station. She cleans the kitchen And reflects about The only things he gave her: Three lonesome kids, A plastic turquoise necklace And a faded Megadeth t-shirt. Now she waits For peace to fill her void. Now she could also Remove him from her phone plan, Stop paying for his Durango And take her cousin-sister To George Strait’s last rendezvous instead. For sure, it’s going to take some time To make it on her own, As it only takes several cycles Of the tired earth’s rotation To reach that hallowed out day. While wars are being justified And leaders and followers rust, The Navajo woman smiles and knows What will happen next. But for tonight, smelling like Comet, She waits.

as having worn a mask without their knowing it – and had them dancing like puppets to the unknowable puller of their strings. In the grand parade, and some with wives in hand, the men dress as women, and walk the streets, and they smile to one another like the queens of soul. The mystery of why lies under the new mask – the one people can see through and into. In my window, there is a dragonfly that is aware of the light from outside but cannot reach it, and the temptation to live pushes its struggle to fly headfirst into the barrier

placed in front of its intention. The knowledge about myself is in front of my dreaming but behind my consciousness. The men in provincetown strut – some graceful and desperate to be seen, and some blocky and rough and still hurting inside and in heels and boas and glitter and wanting so very bad for the day – for today, to be beautiful. Love is greater than what we are waiting for.

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Wind borne

By Redwulf Dancing Bare Wind, the great liberator flowers cloister seeds in sheltering petals fold close like mothers arms cup to collect nourishment, yes but as much so that their children won’t be ripped from them before their time she lost her son to the Iraq War not so friendly fire carried on the winds of someone else’s freedom released him she encased his back biting bullets in her heart eyed dandy lion puff balls with envy It is said that the wind is a jealous thing for it must always keep moving it can never just stop and hold something or someone never has roots to say it belongs somewhere or has ties to some thing the wind must be a very lonely soul it seems it’s always picking up company but for only a short while she had lost her daughter to no named war except the daily battle of living a precious bud smashed by her own husband’s brown thumbed hands a delicate blossoming bruised and battered by his ill winds of selfishness that picked her up and plucked her like a rose in a hurricane the hatred for those who didn’t protect her now a prison in the prison she serves time in for murder the thorns of the thrashed rose the last structure standing a mother flower must somehow just let go into trust for the wind and the sun for the animal’s gnawing, the human’s trampling, the bee’s kissing reaching for the touch of the sun do they hold themselves back because they may get burnt if the rains don’t come do they still find their bliss knowing that their death still feeds future generations of them and others is there joy that the cycle will spiral on but some mothering part still always holds her seeds close till it’s time to release them she changed her name to *Mariah drifted for a while no place felt like home nothing made her smile except a field of flowers in bloom on a windy afternoon old friends say she became her name the west wind blowing picking up the children of flowers on the bloom just to spend a little time with those gone just too soon dedicated to all mothers on Mother’s Day 2013 *nods to Frankie Laine 01/12-RWDB edited 5/13

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A Snake Story

By Susan McNabb Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that time of year scabs bleed from scratching attacks from the unseen world plants wilt in the afternoon sun everything is waiting for the rain. a young green forest rattler appears on our terrace for reasons I cannot explain he assures us he will depart as soon as privacy avails the young bull snake, not so lucky found partially draped over the bottom rung of a tomato cage tangled in the plastic mesh deer fencing his struggling tightened many nooses. I worked around him acknowledged his presence and his predicament scissors on the nearby rock he showed no shock as I kneeled beside him. careful examination of his tail revealed no rattlers. I checked at least 3 times. his head ensnared he remained immobile. how beautiful he is I thought my brother the snake. scissors in hand, I began the process of snipping away the unintentional trap the first release was magical the tail jerked and straightened how cramped it must have felt I moved slowly, cutting away the edges explaining the necessity of stillness you will die if I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remove them you will starve. be with me I called to the unseen forces I call upon for assistance and meditation be with me I removed my protective gloves an act of faith continued my work carefully snipping threads of black plastic like surgical sutures holding him in place. I pulled away knots from damaged scales slipped the scissors under and snipped.

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with each release a reaction of relief. you are frightened I am too but we must do this or you will die my fingers touched his skin I noted an involuntary shudder within him as his restraints fell away he lengthened over a yard long I thought and marveled once again at his beauty only his head kept him tethered yet he remained still, not a sign of aggression I snipped again I think you are free moving away I continued watering returned to find him still held by a thread. with my back to his head I pulled the last remaining thread away slipped the scissors under and snipped he was free! I watched him slither into the near-by grass we were old friends now, this snake and I reluctant to cause further harm I gathered the remnants of the netting completed my watering returned to the house. late in the day, a big raven flew down landed on a pile of wood poles a good place for a wounded snake to take refuge. I ran, out, waved my arms and shouted leave my snake alone! June 2013 Timberlake, Ramah, NM October 4, 2013

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Ruffled Leaves On A Tree In The Moonlight

By Dylan Solomon (I found this in a worn shoe box in the corner of my mind) I’m not gifted in social graces U’ll have 2 4give me as i mend my thoughts w/ wordful laces U 4got me, so i could find myself in these lines... along w/ the many “hi’s” & “goodbye’s.” when U shuld find me, keep me as U would a lost wallet . . . a drawer in the comfort of your heart, then i’ll b set. shall we compare apologies, show R bruised hearts, fresh from Love’s surgery? maybe i’m just da synergy of this apogee that needs some rationality. as we pay love 4 sex; addiction 4 healing; kisses for hate & i tink we’re making God earn his faith! this is how i wear my soul on the blue jeans i made from memory b4 it fades, this is a lemon pie, i’m 2 ignorant 2 do something as easy as lemonade. the trials & pain of life makes a polished person . . . so how bright is UR light & how do U make love 2 life w/ reason? R souls, R books...misused w/ mixed contents but still in circulation. never hide behind life, my fren, wear UR jeans proudly, even in reverse fashion! sum days may B good or sad, it’s R sand flowing w/in time . . . life is a cycle produced 2 reproduce w/ time, 4 time, by time...after time! holding on, sailing life’s journey in my own sea of “everydays” . . . as a sea connected 2 a stream dat gives its’ struggles & grey hazy days. U can drop blood, shed tears, or grow fear facing da unknown but i’m here 4 UR joys and happiness-we collect in photo albums we own. I saw my addiction on da steps of my mind . . . kissing my obsessive thought, while my soul bled shards of sanity in tune 2 dis rhyme. maybe then i can comprehend wat was . . . is & has been . . . my Charlie Sheen days R over, dat dvd will lean between dat old shoebox & wat is yet 2b seen. these oxymoron collections only echo wat U have, R heart remembers . . . & dismembers. if U shuld go, ask if U can bring a fren . . . that I AM, till da end. i guess i’m still able & willing . . . willing & able... circumstantial & liable . . . evidential & tangible . . . (2 my fren...in his suicidal dilemma)

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Over The Mountain By Alyssia Cupp

When the horizon bleeds over the land for a new day, I still think of every yesterday that took those I love over the mountain. My mind continues to wonder through the fields that lead me to empty deserts and forests, while my heart yearns to climb steep hills and falling rocks to over the mountain. Every kind of love that fulfilled me with happiness aches the same no matter the time, for every smile motivates me to reach as far as I can over the mountain. Although my ability to get to a limited distance is subsided, I still hope for one last embrace or sight of them over the mountain. Until a new day arises where every possibility is attained to live with their love once again, I will awake patiently every day til we meet over the mountain.

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“Into the Light” Kitty Mason

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“Series 1 of 15” Lisa Rodriguez

“Snack Time” Gerald Pinto

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t r o h s ries o t s Shoot-Out At St. Johns By John Lewis Taylor

Dan Dubois saddled his horse in the cool of the June dawn. He planned to attend the Fiesta of Saint John the Baptist and wanted to get an early start. Dan then mounted his horse and loped out of the gate of his Deer Springs ranch. As Dan rode towards St. Johns, he thought about the events that changed the region from peace to open war. Sheep ranchers from Cubero, New Mexico established St. Johns; not long ago, there were over a thousand sheep grazing in the area. Problems began, Dan recalled, when Tom Greer a Texas cattleman moved into the Concho valley with a large herds of cattle. “The Texans!” Dan said aloud, he was so angry, “Want to take over this whole country and drive the sheep ranchers out.” Dan Dubois was not on his way to the fiesta to enjoy the circus or the bullfight or even have a few drinks. Dan was riding to support the New Mexicans and he knew there would be trouble. Dan entered St. Johns to find the town busy getting ready for the fiesta. The Mexican circus was setting up in the main street and groups of people were walking to the church for Mass. Dan rode to the Barth Hotel, tied his horse and went inside to have a drink Dan was enjoying his drink when Sheriff Tomas Perez walked in and sat down at Dan’s table. “Dan I am glad you are here.” Perez said, “I expect some trouble today. I warned the Greer cowboys there could be trouble and if they were wise they should not come to the fiesta, but if they chose to visit they should come unarmed. And by god! Four of them rode in this morning carrying more firepower than a cavalry patrol.” “Perez,” Dan said, “the Texans want a fight today. I am going to sit right here until it starts and than I will put an end to it.” Dan did not have to wait long; the circus was in full swing when one of the Greer cowboys thought it would be funny to shoot the rope that held up the trapeze of a girl acrobat. The cowboy’s aim was good and the trapeze artist fell to the ground. Although the girl was not hurt, the crowd grew angry and several of the men drew their weapons and began to advance towards the cowboys. The cowboys were trapped. As the armed crowd moved in, the cowboys drew their six-guns and spread out along the street as they walked backwards towards an adobe building. They were able to hold the mob at bay until they reached the safety of the adobe. Then as Dan said later, “All hell broke loose!” Dan heard the fusillade as the mob opened fire on the adobe. At that same moment, one of the sheep ranchers burst through the saloon door and begged Dan for help. Dan joined the men who were firing into the adobe building. The sheep ranchers kept up a steady fire, while the cowboys fired just enough to keep the crowed from rushing their shelter. Dan stepped into the street and ordered the sheepmen to hold their fire. He then walked up to the door while warning bullets from the Greers kicked up dirt around his feet. When Dan reached the door, the cowboys opened it and Dan stepped inside. “Boys,” said Dan, “You don’t have a chance in hell of getting out of here alive unless you surrender to me. I assure you that I can get you out of town alive.” Dan looked around the room at the exhausted men and went on. “Whatever grievance anyone has must be settled in court. You boys need to agree to that or I can’t get you out of here alive.” The cowboys, being low on ammunition, agreed. Dan collected their weapons and tossed them out the door into the street. Then Dan stepped out and said, “I have given my word to these fellows that they will have safe conduct out of town.” Dan took a deep breath and went on, “These boys have agreed to settle any problems in the courts. I hope that you men will also agree to this.” The sheep ranchers stood silently in the street as Dan led the Greer cowboys out of town. Once the cowboys were on their way Dan returned to the hotel to have a drink before riding home to his ranch.

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Into the Fray

Dylan Solomon

Peck . . . peck . . . peck, the drip from the faucet kept a steady cadence and was the only sound able to be heard. At least the only sound Eugene could pick up was that thunderous splash in the sink. “I can’t concentrate,” he thought, “damn this ‘projected imagery’ they want me to think about!” The soft roar of the AC unit whirred to life. He was already sweating in his trunks, lying there on the bed-table. The plastic upholstery sticking to his bare torso made things only worse. He didn’t need the AC, not now, not when he was surfing in the arms of adrenaline. The feeling was all too familiar . . . he felt this same feeling before, at the start of every football game in his senior year in high school. Again in the desert sun of Iraq, where his brother is currently serving. He thought of his scarred #7 jersey and the little brother who always followed him everywhere. The day when he saw “Telly” (Telisfor, for short) take down Sam, the local bully, outside the tasty-freeze store in Hemet. Eugene could have easily pounded Sam but somewhere in the deep recesses of his mind, he wanted to see what Telly was made of. Telly, wounded with a bloody nose himself, looked like a savage beast, his eyes, his breath seething between his clenched teeth. Sam’s nose, a trickling bloody fountain. The door pounded, he knew from the knock it was Roger, the pudgy fingers and the meaty hand was distinct. “5 minutes . . . Gene!” came the husky California accent. “Yo, you dar, G?” “Yeah, got ya.” He said it but the voice was not his, not for that moment anyway. He took a deep breath and exhaled with his heart thumping in his ears. Eugene could feel the blood coursing through his body but yet his muscles felt like jelly. He remembered the long gym hours he put in, since a year ago, yet he felt like he was 11 again, standing . . . looking at Telly and his ripped shirt. The picture of Pac-man was ripped in two. “I wonder what happened to that shirt?” Again, there was no way to settle his thoughts, his emotions, his rolodex of memories. “Damn you, we got less than 5 minutes and here you’re worried about some shirt, back in 1988!” Next came the second rush of adrenaline and his stomach felt nauseous. His bladder had awakened once again. He grunted and in a rush that psycho-analyst call “flight or fight,” he slowly opened that deep locker in his brain. The neanderthal in his mind, stepped up to the podium to orchestrate the coming symphony of breeding hate. Eugene thought of all the recent things that could make up that demented parade and knew it was wrong; he had to . . . to survive! Slowly like a picture film . . . the pictures flickered to maximum speed. He stoked the fire with careless abandon, the 3rd surge of adrenaline rushed in. Billy, My car, The Cops! Billy, My car, The Cops! Billy . . . his eyes opened in a strange hue. A hue of pure reckless hate had constricted his pupils. He knew he was ready now – his primal self. Man made into beast in less than 5 minutes. Billy, the Marine who beat him up outside a Camp Pendleton bar. His car, the black Camaro he named “Gracie” being repo’d. The cops . . . the room lost all color as only a grey haze filtered through. “Yeaaaah,” he roared. Roger opened the room door. “Bust dis guy up, Gene!” In gleeful manner, Roger caped the gladiator with the words, “Eff him up!” He could hear the roar of the crowd, the long hallway to the arena, and just beyond he could see the ring. Lit with moon-like pale rays. He pounded his gloves and he knew he would give his all, in this fight . . . in life. Knocked down but never out. 4th down & 2 yards to go! He won that game with his touchdown pass! Eff his haters! He’ll survive this. He snorted and pulled the satin hood over his head and danced out of the room. The room door slammed shut. The only sound was from the lonely faucet with its only companion having gone out to fight . . . to join the other in the ring. Into the battle . . . into the fray. -Peck -Peck -Peck-

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Fateful Chance

By Marcus Martza My life has been filled with so many events. Some of which I do not remember, or just block these memories. But there is one event I will never forget. That was the day I met you. It was early in the day, sky filled with a dull hue of orange. You stood there, lost and confused about your surroundings. Out of every corner, you saw strangers, but companions to me. I would have greeted you, but I could not shake this hesitant past of mine. This would be my one and only downfall. Every time I looked to you, you seemed to notice. I could not keep my eyes off you. You were not like any of the other girls I’ve met in my lifetime. Was it the fact that you wore estranged clothes as compared to the other girls? Or that you had a voice so strong and confident? Whatever it may be, I would not find out until later that day. Light, shaky, and weak was my official greeting to you. Whether it was the fact that I have never met such a beautiful woman before, or that I was a nervous wreck, my greeting was barely audible. But I assume you understood what I was trying to get across from my extended hand you shook. I would have found out your name, but my heart beat loudly and it was the only thing I could hear. As I looked deep into your dark, hazel eyes, I was mesmerized and fell into a trancelike state. Smiling sheepishly, you snapped me back into reality. I shook my head, grabbing a hold of my surroundings, as I asked what just happened. Still smiling, you guided me out the door and into the outside. A breeze brushed by, ruffling your hair. The sunlight radiated off your hair, showing the true nature of your soft, free locks. Your face glowed with life, showing a smooth, flawless face. The light hit your eyes, shining brighter than any star flying across the night sky. Never before have I seen such an angelic nature in a person. Smirking, you mouthed words, but I cold not hear you. Yet again, my heart beat loudly, almost as if it were a drum. You tell me you must go, and that it has been a pleasure meeting me. As you walk away, the scent of strawberries rolls into my nose from the breeze. I quietly say to myself, “I need to see you again, I need to tell you something, and I need you in my life. But most importantly, I need to know your name.” We all have beginnings. Her name was initially the beginning of mine.

Respect

By Redwulf Dancing Bare

We climbed to a place few humans have probably been, at least lately. We hauled ourselves up the steep crumbly slope through clawing scrubby juniper, over cactus strewn crevices, past prickly protectors that all things in the desert seem to possess. It is a land of snaggled tooth things that pries hats off our heads, pokes pains in our awareness, snags our loose human flappinesses. We scratched our way on all fours. At times scrambling past hard rocky edges, and over gut dragging ledges into those perfect places that one must always turn back from, eventually. Those times when the excited breath calms and the cool breeze sates, or when the thrill provokes that another splendor awaits after this one releases, or when the remembrance roars that extreme beauty clutched often carries deadly consequence. We go on rising higher nearly to the base of the glistening outcropping, a sentinel to time, a keeper of secrets. To the west, El Morro gleams like a gem set in the early evening gold. A misty purple haze of dusk and dust carried on the strong gusty spring winds glides through the snaking valley. The southerly sister mesas arc in a long line, their sharp tongues talking to the north. The Zunis, not-far-away-shore of this once shallow ancient seabed, swim in a dream of sun and shadow in the evening soup. Once again, we dig our claws into rotten logs, loose roots, and shifting scree. Sheer muscle tugs and lifts and shoves and leaps up, over, and around large stones and boulders perched precariously. Many ready to roll from a whisper. Our centers of gravity low in our bodies, our instincts flush with presence, and our knowing that if even one of our 4 holds gives way it could mean a long hard bone breaking tumble and quite possibly death. The last few yards are nearly vertically steep, my heart pumps excitedly in my neck. I hug the earth, clutch with all my will, cling to a small tree root. Pulling with all my might with the muscles of my very weak right shoulder, I throw my left leg up and haul myself over. Shifting everything up onto gleaming sandstone and safety. It is a breath, a drink, a wide eyed gasp back to understand where I have been, and a prayer of blood throbbing thanks. It’s not far to go to the top, another 100 feet, just up and around the giant watcher. Feather climbs higher. I suddenly feel called, compelled, chosen to race down along the base to follow the path I see. Treasure awaits around the bend, I know. I scurry down, the sandstone now good traction. I nearly race around the bend and up the terrace-like rise toward a hole I can just barely see, a small cave opening, up a couple of high step levels. My mind races, maybe an ancient bowl sits in the waiting. I rush up the leg stretching rise of steps to the level just below the hole in the wall. 6 feet away, and I come to a jerking halt. What hit me first? May-be, it was the pile of chewed-on bones in the foot-wide square doorway, or the huge pile of rotting flesh 2 feet in front of me, or the stench that twisted my gut and shriveled my peace. I had the imaging of a mountain lion just inside looking out at me, racing out for me. Cornered kitty, not a good time, I ran like a wind gust filled my sails, like an antelope fleeing, like a silly human wondering and wandering. We made it to the mesa top quickly, a great new respect for quiet sentinels. RWDB-05/10

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The Lady in Blue

By Jonathan Adok Markus Todachini pushed aside the thick red velvet curtain and entered the darkened theater. Lights, high up in the ceiling, cast a spectral glow over the grand room. Carrying his popcorn and soda, he slid into the last row. From all he’d read of the theater’s history, this was the best seat. The right seat. Markus loved movies. And he loved old theaters, their history, their grandeur, and most of all their ability to transport him back to a time long past. This was the El Morro, a stately movie house built during the early part of the last century, during the golden age of film. A lot of memories. A lot of history. And that was why he’d been coming here for the past nine years and sitting in this same seat. He hoped one day to play a small part in that history. An old movie was showing tonight. Penny Serenade. He hadn’t seen it before, which was good. He’d get to experience the film the same way theatergoers seventy years ago had experienced it, by watching Cary Grant and Irene Dunne making what some film historians might call movie magic. The house lights dimmed, the screen brightened, and the credits rolled. Markus sipped his drink. He sensed movement to his right. Two seats over from him, almost by the aisle, sat a young woman in a simple blue dress. The dress seemed thin, too thin for the cool October evening. He turned away not wanting to be caught staring. The theater was almost empty, maybe twenty people at most. Yet, she had chosen to sit next to him. He stole another glance. She leaned forward in her seat not touching the backrest, her hands clasped together on her lap. He could sense her anticipation. She was smiling. On screen, Cary Grant was working his charm in a record store where he was trying to get the attention of Irene Dunne. Markus found himself smiling, too. He turned back to the young woman. Her hair was dark, wavy, its color hard to discern in the feeble light. Pearls graced her slender neck. She hadn’t turned to face him, but from the side he could tell she was beautiful. He tried to watch the movie. Penny Serenade unfolded through a series of flashbacks connected to a collection of music records the couple had acquired throughout their years together. In the story, they were now married and living in Japan. Cary Grant’s character had just quit his newspaper job after receiving a small inheritance. Irene Dunne was upset because of his decision. “Don’t you think he’s foolish?” the woman in blue said. He turned to her. She didn’t look at him, her gaze still focused on the screen. He swallowed. “Yes.” “Even so, you can’t help but love him. He’s so handsome.” “Cary Grant?” “Of course, silly.” Of course. Who else would she be talking about? He said, “You like old movies?” “I love all movies.” “So do I.” He waited but she said nothing more. He didn’t want the conversation to end, but he didn’t know how to keep it going either. So he watched the film. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne adopted a little girl, but the girl died only a few years later. Markus took a deep breath. “It’s hard losing someone you love.” “Yes,” the woman said in a soft voice. The movie was almost over now. Cary Grant and Irene Dunne were questioning whether they should remain together. “I’m Markus.” The woman in blue didn’t answer him. Nor did she look at him. “Your name is Annabelle, right?” On screen, Cary Grant and Irene Dunne received a phone call. It was good news. They might get to adopt another child. Now, there was a reason for them to stay together. The movie came to an end. Annabelle smiled as she faded away. In all the stories about the woman in blue, she’d never turned to face anyone. And in most, she’d never spoken. So, in that sense, Markus knew that her visit tonight had been special. He had learned all he could about Annabelle over the years. About the loss of her fiancé during the Great War. About her hanging herself in the apartment upstairs where she’d lived with her father, the theater’s manager. About the patriotic blue dress she’d chosen for her death. And about the many reports of people seeing her in the last row, watching movies and waiting for her fiancé to return. The End

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allup has a promising new writer to enjoy; and Rebekah Anast has more than one story to tell. The product of an unconventional upbringing, she is always busy, her seven children trailing her like ducklings. She married Gabe Anast in 2000. Gabe is a Gallup boy descended from the Turpen and Richardson families, and he’s not so ordinary either. As a couple they are fulfilling a rather strange destiny. Gabe’s parents were once missionaries in Papua, New Guinea and that’s where their paths cross, many years apart. Beka, as she is called, was raised in Tennessee near a rural Amish community, sharing that austere lifestyle, and being home-schooled. She made a trip to New Guinea as a teenager, came back and got a college degree with a dual major by the time she was

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twenty. Back in New Guinea she dealt with people who had never seen a white person before and ended up coordinating a project to print the Bible in English and Melanesian Pidgin, the local trade language. She discovered that many individuals and groups had been working on that idea without much success. Unfortunately, malaria and other jungle critters almost destroyed her liver and her general health and she came home exhausted in 1999. For the story of that amazing period in her life (cannibals and all), look up Rebekah’s Diary on Amazon. Gabe’s sister befriended her and, through her, Beka met Gabe. In 2000 he talked

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her into moving to Gallup, a far cry from either Tennessee or the jungles of Southeast Asia. Jump to the present. She and Gabe moved into the country down by Pinehaven in 2010 and bought a cow, some chickens, a bunch of seeds, and returned to the lifestyle of her childhood, which she loved. One day, visiting the Homestead at Albuquerque’s Botanical Gardens, she got the idea to write about that life. Originally it was supposed to be a screenplay. Holy Cow has a message, but it doesn’t intrude on a fast-paced story of rural life and the joys of the Southwest. One of the best scenes takes place at a Pinehill reservation rodeo, for example. Ramona Morgan is a Navajo girl who can, as Beka says, “pull a newborn calf, make mountain tobacco, and bake bread in a mud oven.” She is traditional, and works to keep her life “hozho,” balanced and in tune with the earthly rhythm. When a city-bred distant cousin comes to live with them, we see the contrast in lifestyles they represent. Daniel’s mother has just died, his father is in rehab, and he is badly in need of a stable home life. The title of the book comes from an incident that happens soon after Daniel’s arrival. Their milk is, of course, raw and unpasteurized. When confronted with a glass of milk, Daniel is at least skeptical. The first sip isn’t so bad. He takes a big gulp and says something along the lines of “holy crap.” Ramona answers, “No, holy cow.” Holy Cow is aimed at the young adult audience, and, the author says, “young people of all ages.” Only a person who has really lived this unusual lifestyle could write about it with such convincing detail. Somebody who canned veggies from her own garden and milks her own cow by hand. The book is available on Amazon, and Butler’s Printing and Office Supply has signed copies. Enjoy!

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News From CARE 66

Construction is ongoing as we speak for Hooghan Ho’zho’. We are excited that the many years of hard work and fundraising are beginning to see fruition. Watch for pictures on our Facebook site. We are pleased to announce that an architectural team from Atkins Olshin Schade (AOS) and 7 Directions has produced a winning design for a new mixed-income housing development on the west side of Gallup. Architects Daniel Glenn of 7 Directions and Jamie Blosser of AOS won over CARE 66 Board Members and Stakeholders with their design to transform 7 acres in the Stagecoach Neighborhood into small groupings of townhouses and apartments with common areas to promote both connectivity and safety. Glenn and Blosser were one of three architectural teams invited to compete in a design competition sponsored by Enterprise Community Partners. Daniel Glenn, AIA, is an MIT educated architect with 27 years of experience in sustainable building design and is recognized as a national leader in sustainable housing design for Native American Communities. Jamie Blosser, resource member for the Sustainable Cities Design Academy and founder of the Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative, has been practicing architecture in New Mexico for 15 years. CARE 66 plans to move forward with the new team for additional planning in 2014. We want to thank all of you for your support. We are very grateful for the donations, the ideas, and the support we have received from you. We are proud to serve the people of this city and county. We hope 2014 will be a year of success and prosperity for you. Until next month stay well and do good! We have been known to update our blog once in a while, it is found at http://care66. blogspot.com. I can be reached at Sanjay@care66.org.

Junk Mail Collection to Begin this Month at Gallup’s Main Post Office By Betsy Windisch

World War I Awareness Weekend El Morro Theatre Saturday, January 4, 2:00-9:00 pm It was “The War to End All Wars,” but few of us with ancestors who served in it have heard WWI veterans’ stories or saved historical artifacts. El Morro Theatre brings you filmmaker David DeJonge of Grand Rapids, Michigan, whose inquiry about WWI led him to chronicle the amazing life of the longest-living American veteran, Frank Woodruff Buckles, in his film, Pershing’s Last Patriot, which screens at 7pm on Saturday, January 4. At 6pm, attendees are invited to display or view WWI memorabilia or books and to meet and greet the filmmaker. The afternoon begins with a 2pm screening of the challenging 1971 film, Johnny Got His Gun (for mature audiences only), and at 4pm, Gallipoli. Tickets for the entire day’s events are $8 in advance and are available at Don Diego’s Restaurant, Gallup Lumber, and the UPS Store. Tickets are also available online at elmorrotickets.com. Call 505-726-0050 for more information. Those who travel from out of town for this event will receive a discount rate at Comfort Suites at exit 26 off I-40. The El Morro Theatre Advisory Meeting is open to the public. The next meeting is at El Morro Theatre on Sunday, January 12 at 3pm. Refreshments will be provided.

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Collection of junk mail at the main US Post Office on Aztec Avenue heralds a new day in solid waste diversion from our regional landfill. If you have ever been to the post office and watched people sort their mail, you have seen how much junk mail is thrown into the trash. The trashed junk mail is mixed with other waste and then finds its way to the landfill. This costs you, the taxpayer, money. We are paying for junk mail to be hauled and put in a hole in the ground. The McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council, in partnership with the local US Postal Service, will place recycling bins in the main post office to collect junk mail this month as a trial project. Junk mail (including envelopes, catalogs, magazines, white paper) can be recycled as Mixed Paper locally. When these items are kept clean and recycled they will save trash collection costs for the USPS and the Solid Waste Authority, in turn, is able to turn this trash into cash. The bins, manufactured by Recyclingbin, are made from recycled materials. This company is committed to making products that are innovative, environmentally sensitive, intelligently designed, and sustainably manufactured in the USA (recyclingbin.com). Look for the new bins when you are in the main post office. Use them appropriately for the disposal of your unwanted mail. Of course the best thing, is to make less trash in the first place. Most junk mail is thrown out before it is even opened. It can be annoying, but worse, it is a waste. It takes 100 million trees to create all the junk mail in the United States in one year. Junk mail uses as much energy as three million cars. How can you change this junk mail scenario? Take the time to become more eco-friendly and stop the junk mail before it gets to your mailbox by: One, ask to have your name removed from mailing lists of companies or causes in which you have no interest. Look for the unsubscribe note on most mailers. Check out www.ehow.com/How to Request Removal from Junk Mail Lists and www.ehow.com/The Best Way to Get Off of Mailing Lists, among others. Two, you can help reduce junk mail and at the same time help the post office reduce their deficit by returning junk mail to the sender. Open every piece of junk mail received, and then send it back in the postage paid return envelope. Include some of the inserts from the original mailing. By returning the unwanted solicitation a message is sent to the company and the post office makes money on the returned piece. For more information about where to recycle in Gallup-McKinley County visit the MCRC web site www.recyclegallup.org or call Gerald / Millie at 722-5142.

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La Catrina String Quartet Gallup High School Auditorium Monday, January 27, 7:00 pm La Catrina String Quartet: Latin American and Standard Repertoire will perform Mexican and Latin American music on Monday, January 27 beginning at 7pm in the Gallup High School Kenneth Holloway Auditorium. La Catrina performs up to 50 concerts a year, and Gallup is fortunate to be included as one of their performances. Do not miss this most sought after ensemble which is currently in residence at New Mexico State University. Daniel Vega-Albela, Roberta Arruda, Jorge Martínez Rios, and Javier Arias will perform new compositions as well as masterworks. The La Catrina Quartet at New Mexico State University won a 2012 Latin Grammy in November 2012 for their work on the album, Brasileiro, works of Mignone, by Cuarto Latinoamericano. The award-winning CD, on the Sono Luminus label, won for Best Classical Recording, with the ensemble collaborating on Francisco Mignone’s “Seresta for double quartet.” Faculty members collaborating on the award-winning project were violinists Daniel Vega-Albela and Roberta Arruda, cellist Cesar Bourguet and violist Jorge Martinez Rios. This group, hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as “wonderful ambassadors of music,” has a triple mission: to perform the masterworks of the string quartet repertoire, to promote Mexican and Latin American concert music worldwide, and to work closely with composers in order to promote the performance of new music. Join us on January 27 in the Kenneth Holloway Auditorium to hear this quartet. You may purchase tickets at the door. A family membership for the remaining season is $90 (2 adults + school age children). An adult membership is $40 for the rest of the season. There are still three more concerts for the 2013-2014 season. Single tickets for this concert only are $12 for an adult. Students and seniors pay $10. For more information about the Gallup Community Concert Association or this concert, call Antoinette Neff, Executive Director at 505-862-3939 or e-mail: toni@nizhonimusic.com.

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It’s massive, and it’s complicated. At more than 2,000 pages, the Affordable Care Act (ACA for short) has left businesses and individuals confused about what the law contains and how it affects them. The aim of the law is to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans. To reach that goal, the law requires large companies to provide health insurance for their employees starting in 2015, and uninsured individuals must get their own health insurance starting in 2014. Those who fail to do so face penalties. Insurance companies must also deal with new requirements. For example, they cannot refuse coverage due to pre-existing conditions, preventive services must be covered with no out-of-pocket costs, young adults can stay on parents’ policies until age 26, and lifetime dollar limits on health benefits are not permitted. The law mandates health insurance coverage, but not every business or individual will be affected by this requirement. Here’s an overview of who will be affected.

FOR BUSINESSES – It’s all in the numbers

• Companies with fewer than 50 employees are encouraged to provide insurance for their employees, but there are no penalties for failing to do so. A special marketplace will be available for businesses with 50 or fewer employees, allowing them to buy health insurance through the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP). • Small companies that pay at least 50% of the health insurance premiums for their employees may be eligible for a tax credit for as much as 35% of the cost of the premiums. To qualify, the business must employ fewer than 25 full-time people with average wages of less than $50,000. For 2014, the maximum credit increases to 50% of the premiums the company pays, though to qualify for the credit, the insurance must be purchased through SHOP. • For companies with 50 or more full-time employees, the requirement to provide “affordable, minimum essential coverage” to employees has been delayed for one year and is not required until 2015. Originally, employers had been required to file information returns that reported details about the health insurance they provided, with penalties to apply if the insurance did not meet standards. Companies complained that they needed more time to meet the reporting obligations, and in response the IRS made the reporting requirement optional for 2014. Without the reporting, the IRS could not determine penalties, so the penalties also were postponed for a year. Bottom line: the IRS is encouraging companies to comply in 2014 even though there are no penalties for failure to do so. • The business play or pay penalty Starting in 2015, companies with 50 or more employees that don’t offer minimum essential health insurance face an annual penalty of $2,000 times the number of full-time employees over a 30-employee threshold. If the insurance that is offered is considered unaffordable (it exceeds 9.5% of family income), the company may be assessed a $3,000 per-employee penalty. These penalties apply

only if one or more of the company’s employees buy insurance from an exchange and qualify for a federal credit to offset the cost of the premiums.

FOR INDIVIDUALS – It’s all about coverage

Currently, attention is focused on the health insurance exchanges or “Marketplace” that opened for business on October 1. Confusion about the Affordable Care Act has left many people thinking everyone has to deal with the exchanges. The fact is that if you are covered by Medicare, Medicaid, or an employer-provided plan, you don’t need to do anything. Also, if you buy your health insurance on your own and are happy with your plan, you can keep your coverage (assuming that your plan is still offered by the insurance company). However, the only way to get any premium-lowering tax credits based on your income is to buy a plan through the Marketplace. · The exchanges (Marketplace) Each state will either develop an insurance exchange (Marketplace) or use one provided by the federal government. The Marketplace will allow those seeking coverage to comparison shop for health plans from private insurance companies. There will be four types of insurance plans to choose from: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum. The more expensive the plan, the greater the portion of medical costs that will be covered. The price of each plan will depend on several factors including your age, whether you smoke, and where you live. Many individuals will qualify for federal tax credits, which will reduce the premiums they actually pay. Each state’s Marketplace will have a calculator to assist individuals in determining the amount, if any, of their federal tax credit. •The individual play or pay penalty If you’re one of the 45 million or so Americans without health insurance, you will need to get coverage for 2014 or pay a penalty of $95 or 1% of your income, whichever is greater. Lowincome individuals may qualify for subsidies and/or tax credits to help pay the cost of insurance. The penalty increases to $325 or 2% of income for 2015 and to $695 or 2.5% of income for 2016. For 2017 and later years, the penalty is inflation-adjusted. Those who choose not to be insured and to pay the penalty instead will still be liable for 100% of their medical bills. NOTE: If you will be shopping for health insurance on the Marketplace, be aware that there’s no need to rush to enroll; the enrollment period runs from October 1, 2013, through March 31, 2014. Take the time you need to review your options and select what’s best for you and your family. NOTE: This Memo is intended to provide you with an informative summary of the tax issues connected with the Affordable Care Act. This massive package of legislation contains varying effective dates, definitions, limitations, and exceptions that cannot be summarized easily. Also be aware that in the political environment surrounding this law, changes could be made at any time. For details and guidance in applying the tax provisions of this law to your situation, seek professional assistance. • MC_4613-ACA

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Monday ONGOING

Support Class for Parents of Teens at First United Methodist Church from 6:30-7:30pm. Info: 8634512.

Battered Families Services, Inc. has a women’s support group that meets weekly. A children’s support group is available at the same time for children six years of age and older. Info: 722-6389.

Poetry Group, call Jack for more information (including location) at 783-4007.

Codependents Anonymous, 12 noon at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, library room. Info: Liz at 863-5928.

Psychic Playtime with RedWulf at the Old School Gallery 1st and 3rd Sundays, 7-9:30pm. Tarot, drum journeys and more tools to explore your inner self. $1 donation. Info: RedWulf @ 505-7834612. Coyote Canyon Women’s Sweat Lodge Ceremony on Sundays, 1-4pm, potluck dinner. Located 3 miles east of Highway 491, Route 9 junction, 1 mile south of Route 9. The ceremony is for wellness, stress reduction, purification and cultural sensitivity. All women are welcomed. For more information, call 505 870-3832. Long Form Tai Chi will practice at Old School Gallery in El Morro, NM, 9:30-10:30 am. Newcomers welcome! Experience the healing power of group meditation! Reserve a time for silence, love and light! Share your presence with us! Third Sundays of the month, 1-3 pm. Contact Maria for directions, 505-863-3772. Bluewater Acres area. Zumba, a cardio-based workout, is “exercise in disguise.” Come for classes led by licensed instructor, Vanessa Bowling, at Hozho Center (216 W. Maloney, Gallup) Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays at 6 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. Cost is $4/person. For more information, check out www.vbowling.zumba.com.

“Teen Survivors of Dating and Domestic Violence” support group meeting, 6:30-8:30pm. Info: 7226389. Lebanon Lodge #22, A. F. & A. M. meets the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at 7:30 pm at the Gallup Masonic Center (4801 E. Historic 66 Avenue). An informational program and meal are presented before the meeting at 6:45 pm. All Masons are invited. Info: lebanonlodge22@yahoo. com. Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held from 7:15-8:15 pm at Wowie’s Gym (1500 South 2nd Street, Gallup). $5/class or 10-class punch card for $30. Your first 2 classes are FREE! Info: Alicia Santiago (505) 236-9564. Open mic night every Monday at the Coffee House from 6 to 8 pm. Open to musicians, poets, and story tellers. Zumba classes well be held 6:30-7:30 at 3rd and Maloney at the Hozho Center, $4/class. If you have any questions please feel free to call Kimberly Martinez at 505-713-7250. The Gallup York Rite Masons hold their monthly meeting on the 1st Monday of each month at the Gallup Masonic Center (4801 E. Historic 66 Avenue) at 7:30 pm. A short program and light meal are held before most meetings at 6:45 pm. All York Rite Masons are invited to attend. Info: GallupYorkRite@ yahoo.com.

The El Morro Theatre Advisory Quilt Club at Gallup Service Mart, Meeting is open to the public, convening at 6-8 pm (winter hours). Come join this free El Morro Theatre at 3pm. Refreshments will event with other area quilters to share ideas be provided. and projects. Fore more information, call 505-722-9414. Taizé Worship at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 4 pm. Please join us for candlelight, meditation, prayer, silence and Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY The church is located on Boardman Drive just south of Orleans Manor Apartments. Call Kathy (722-5011) for more information. La Catrina String Quartet: Latin American and Standard Repertoire will perform Mexican and Latin American music Open House at Hands of Hope beginning at 7pm in the Gallup High School Pregnancy Center (120 S. Boardman Ave., Kenneth Holloway Auditorium. For more Gallup), 2-4pm. Please stop by to come information about the Gallup Community and tour our recently remodeled office, Concert Association or this concert, read enjoy some refreshments, and see what G-Town article or call Antoinette Neff, Hands of Hope is doing in our community. Executive Director at 505-862-3939 or EVERYONE is invited! Questions, call 505- e-mail: toni@nizhonimusic.com. 722-7125.

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Wednesday

Mother Goose on the Loose (ages 0-2) interactive parent-child music + movement story time, 11am at the Children’s Library.

Weird Science Club (ages 6-12) exploratory science, technology, engineering and math programs designed to make learning fun, 4pm at the Children’s Library.

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Adult chess club at Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe in Gallup, 5-7pm. Gallup Al-Anon meetings at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive (next to GIMC). Tuesdays at 12 noon and Thursdays at 7pm in Conference Room #1.

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Cancer support group, for information call 8633075 or 863-6140. Gallup Solar Group open community meetings. 6pm at 113 E. Logan. For more information, call Be at 726-2497.

ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Window Rock Sports Center starting at 5:30 p.m.. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970.

Spay-Neuter Discount Clinic for Low Income Pet Owners at the Gallup McKinley County Humane Society, N. Highway 491. Call 863-2616 for an appointment.

Overeaters Anonymous meeting for beginner and returning, 6:30-7:30 pm at Church of the Holy Spirit (1334 Country Club Drive). For more information, call Linda at (505) 863-6042.

ZUMBA Fitness Classes at Chee Dodge Elementary School starting at 5:30 p.m. For more information email r_roanhorse@yahoo.com or call Ralph Roanhorse at (505) 862-2970.

Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held from 7:15-8:15 pm at Wowie’s Gym (1500 South 2nd Street, Gallup). $5/class or 10-class punch card for $30. Your first 2 classes are FREE! Info: Alicia Santiago (505) 236-9564.

Four Corners Yoga (601 W. Coal Ave.) is offering free community class at 6 pm. All donations will be remitted to Adopt an Elder. For information, call 505-863-6463, email fourcornersyoga@yahoo.com or friend us on FB @ fourcornersyoga. *All classes are hot and 90 mins. CHANGE YOUR BODY . . . CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

Zumba classes well be held 6:30-7:30 at 3rd and Maloney at the Hozho Center, $4/class. If you have any questions please feel free to call Kimberly Martinez at 505-713-7250.

Zumba classes at the Hozho Center (3rd and Maloney) Wednesday 6:30-7:30 and Fridays 6:307:30. For more information, call the Hozho Center at 505-870-1483 or call 505-713-7250.

Faith Chapter #69, Order of the Eastern Star, meet the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7 pm at the Gallup Masonic Center (4801 E. Historic 66 Avenue). Info: Robert 505-615-8053.

Work in Beauty, a non-profit focusing on local agriculture, meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 7pm at the Gallup Solar/Work in Beauty House at 113 E. Logan St. Please join us on the 2nd Tuesday of the month for open board meetings and the 4th Tuesday for community action meetings. We are also looking for new board members. We hope to see you soon!

Community Stage Night at El Morro Theatre, 7-8:30 pm. Free. All talent welcome, including Music, Mime, Improv, Comedy, Dance, Spoken Word, and more. Performers may call Rachel at 505-863-7626, email manager@kglp.org, or arrive no later than 6:45pm Wednesdays to sign up at the theatre.

Gallup Relay for Life Kick-Off, Cancer Center, 6 pm

Beginner’s Quilting Classes Part 1 of 3, at Gallup Service Mart, 6-9 pm. $45 includes patterns and handouts for all three classes. Learn about fabrics, sewing machine feet, machine parts, and how to make a quilt from beginning to end. This will include 3 evenings of sewing and quilting fun and learning. Bring your sewing machine and join us in learning how to do basic quilting. (Continued on Feb. 11 and March 11.) For more information call 505-722-9414.

Gallup Relay for Life Kick-Off, Gallup Community Service Center, 2-5 pm. The community is invited to play Bingo, learn about Relay, how to join a team, start a team, or how to be an advocate for cancer victims. Refreshments and concessions available.

Hozho Center, located at 216 W. Maloney in Gallup, provides services for personal enhancement through information, support and hope. For more information, call 505-870-1483.

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Gallup Solar meets the first three Wednesdays of every month at 113 East Logan to discuss everything solar, from megawatt plants to solar lighting for the outhouse. To find out how you can save money on a grid tie in Gallup or for more information, go to new projects at gallupsolar.org or call Don at 505-728-9246. Made in New Mexico film series at Octavia Fellin Public Library, 5:30 pm. Showing Cowboys and Aliens (2011). Popcorn provided!

Made in New Mexico film series at Octavia Fellin Public Library, 5:30 pm. Showing Fright Night (2011). Popcorn provided!

Made in New Mexico film series at Octavia Fellin Public Library, 5:30 pm. Showing Bless Me Ultima (2011). Popcorn provided!

Made in New Mexico film series at Octavia Fellin Public Library, 5:30 pm. Showing The Lone Ranger (2013). Popcorn provided!

Services include: Warm Line – Non-crisis support lines include Confidentiality, Peer-to-Peer Support System, Resources, the chance to Share Concerns. We are here to listen in you need someone to talk to! The Warm Line is bilingual in Navajo and English. Call 505-862-2161, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 am to 3 pm. One2One, a peer recovery coach to strengthen and encourage individual recovery effort. Men’s group Mondays at 10 am; Talking Circle on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm; Women’s group Thursdays at 10 am; 12 Steps Meetings Wednesdays and Fridays at 6 pm.

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Thursday ONGOING

Crafty Kids, fun for all ages, 4pm at the Children’s Library. Moms Supporting Moms at Church Rock School, 9-11:30am. Toastmasters at Earl’s Restaurant, 6:30am. Info: Dale at 722-9420. Substance Abuse Support Group, CASA, at Gallup Church of Christ, 7pm. Info: Darrel at 863-5530. Community Yoga, beginner/athletic beginner level. 6:20 pm, Catholic Charities/CIC. 506 W. Rte. 66. Info: Gene at 505-728-8416. Gallup Al-Anon meetings at First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive (next to GIMC). Tuesdays at 12 noon and Thursdays at 7pm in Conference Room #1. Divorce Care Support Group, Thursdays at 7pm. Location to be determined. For more information, call or email Dan at 505 878-2821 or dkruis@ yahoo.com. Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held from 7:15-8:15 pm at Wowie’s Gym (1500 South 2nd Street, Gallup). $5/class or 10-class punch card for $30. Your first 2 classes are FREE! Info: Alicia Santiago (505) 236-9564.

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Movies for all ages at the Children’s Library@ 4pm Overeaters Anonymous meeting at 11 am, at the First United Methodist Church, 1800 Red Rock Drive, library room. Info: Liz 505-863-5928. The weekly Old-Fashioned Hootenanny, at Camille’s Sidewalk Cafe, every Friday, starting at Zumba classes well be held at 11 am at 3rd and Maloney at the Hozho Center, $4/class. If you have any questions 6:30PM. Acoustic musicians are welcome to sit in please feel free to call Kimberly Martinez at 505-713-7250. with the regular players. Alicia’s Zumba Fitness Classes will be held from 7:15-8:15 pm at Wowie’s Gym (1500 South 2nd Street, Gallup). $5/class or 10-class punch card for $30. Your first 2 classes are FREE! Info: Alicia Santiago (505) 236-9564. Fall Belly Dance Classes at FOF Dance Studio, 230 W Coal Ave. Kids Belly Dance, 5:00-5:30pm. Intro to Belly Dance (for adults), 5:30-6:30. FOF Belly Dance Performance Class: 6:30-7:30. Call Leaf at 722-2491 for tuition rates and registration and for more info.

Free Computer Classes at Octavia Fellin Public Library

Class size is limited to 10 participants per session. Registration is required, to register call Zumba classes well be held 6:30-7:30 at 3rd 505-863-1291 or email libtrain@gallupnm.gov. and Maloney at the Hozho Center, $4/class. If you have any questions please feel free to call Kimberly Martinez at 505-713-7250. Basic Computer Skills I Introduction to the Internet I

Diabetes Education Classes, first four Thursdays of the month, 6:30-8:30 pm, RMCH 2nd floor library. Contact: Carolyn at 863-1865. Zumba, a cardio-based workout, is “exercise in disguise.” Come for classes led by licensed instructor, Vanessa Bowling, at Hozho Center (216 W. Maloney, Gallup) Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays at 6 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. Cost is $4/person. For more information, check out www.vbowling.zumba.com.

Saturday

January 6, 5:30pm – 7:30pm January 23, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

January 8, 11:00am – 1:00pm January 24, 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Basic Computer Skills II January 7, 5:30pm – 7:30pm January 27, 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Introduction to the Internet II January 10, 11:00am – 1:00pm January 28, 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Microsoft Word: A Beginner’s Course January 15, 2:00pm – 4:00pm January 16, 11:00am – 1:00pm January 30, 2:00pm – 4:00pm

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Soroptimist International of Gallup WWI Film Festival at El Morro Theatre featuring documentary Pershing’s Last Patriot and Spring Belly Dance classes begin meets the second Thursday of the month January 3 at FOF Dance Studio, 230 W. presentation by filmmaker David DeJonge at 7pm. Other WWI movies will be shown at 2pm and at Angela’s Café at noon. Please note the Coal Ave. Kids Belly Dance: 5:00-5:30. 4pm. $8 for day pass includes three films, plus meet & greet with filmmaker. For more information, new location! contact El Morro Theatre at www.elmorrotheatre.com, 505 726-0050. Special thanks to Veterans Intro to Belly Dance: 5:30-6:30. FOF Belly Dance Performance Class: 6:30- Helping Veterans. Second Thursday Diabetes Support 7:30. Call Leaf @ 979-2047 for more Group at Church of the Holy Spirit McKinley Citizens’ Recycling Council monthly meeting, 2 pm at the Red Mesa Center next to the info. and tuition rates. (1334 Country Club Drive, Gallup), 5:30 library on Hill Ave. pm. For all people who suffer from Type 1 Crownpoint Rug Weavers or Type 2 Diabetes. Info: 505-863-4695. Association Auction at Crownpoint ArtsCrawl, Downtown Gallup, 7-9 pm. Elementary School. Viewing 4:00-6:30 Breastfeeding 101, learn the basics of pm, auction 7:00-10:00 pm. For more breastfeeding, 6pm, RMCH 2nd floor library AND Baby Bistro, support group information, visit crownpointrugauction. At 2 pm, Octavia Fellin Public Library is hosting Sherry Robinson, an award-winning for breastfeeding moms and their babies, com. author and journalist, who will present an illustrated talk about the Lipan Apaches, along with 7pm, RMCH 2nd floor library. For more a discussion about her latest book, I Fought a Good Fight: A History of the Lipan Apaches. Ms. information contact Mary Ippel at 505Robinson is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and is a long time New Mexico journalist. Four Corners Youth 870-5103. She began her career on the Navajo Reservation and has worked for television and newspapers Bull Riding Classic presented by including the Gallup Independent. For more information, please call the library at 505-863-1291 or Championship Bull Riding at McGee email libref@gallupnm.gov. Funded in part by StoryCorps and the New Mexico Humanities Council. Coliseum in Farmington, NM. Call in Refreshments will be served. Dr. Marco’s Italian Classes are continuing each Thursday for 8 weeks at dates: January 8-9 from 6pm to 10 pm, the law offices of Mason & Isaacson. 5:30 505-728-4463. For more information, pm Beginner Class, 6:30 pm Intermediate call Murphy Logg at 928-797-1328 or Have a “Cup for Life” at The Coffee House (203 W. Coal Ave.), 8am-2pm. A Portion of all 505-728-4463. Class. Private lessons also available. register receipts will be donated to Hands of Hope! Come out to support your local pregnancy center Family discounts apply. For information and enjoy delicious hot drinks, food, and fellowship, while you are out and about working on your please call 541-761-4980. Grazie e ciao! Saturday to-do list! Info call 505-722-7125.

Radiant Star Saturday quilting workshop at UNM North Campus, 9am-4pm. $35 plus pattern, includes lunch. The Radiant Star, also known as the Lone Star, Texas Star and Star of Bethlehem is a favorite among quilt lovers. The large multi-pieced star appears to burst from the center and radiant to the tips of the eight large identical diamonds. Come join other students and learn this star pattern. For more information, call 505-722-9414.

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VOLUNTEERS & DONATIONS NEEDED Are you interested in learning how to build a house, meeting new friends, lending a hand up not a hand out? Join Habitat for Humanity for one or more part-day construction or support sessions. No experience needed. We also need financial help or recycled household items for our yard sale fundraisers. We are now building our 5th home in Gallup but we can’t do it without you. Register/Donate at www.habitatgallup.org or call 505-722-4226.

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1. Judy and Pete VanderArk (parents of local legend, Sara Pikaart) took their Gallup Journey to Lanzhou, China to attend the wedding of their son Alex and new daughter-in-law, Yoki. 2. “Even one of Japan’s National Treasures (Daibutsu: The Great Buddha) could not keep us from reading the Gallup Journey.” Left to Right: Arianna Halona, Karen Halona, Mary Bear, Adam Tompkins, Starrla Curley.

3. Everyone’s favorite candy maker, Riley Ortiz (of Native Sweets!) reads the Journey at Lake Tahoe. 4. Karen Zollinger took a fantastic trip to the Middle East and the Journey got to visit Haifa in Israel, Petra in Jordan and the Dead Sea in Israel . . . what a trip! 5. Lily and Jude Cavanaugh (offspring of Meghan and Greg Cavanaugh - of Driving Impressions fame) read the Journey unprompted in downtown Gallup at Cortez Barbershop.

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January ArtsCrawl Historic

Downtown

Gallup

Saturday, January 11 • 7pm - 9pm PARTICIPATING VENUES ANGELA’S CAFé

GREAT COFFEE, FOOD, DRINKS, AND NOW ART! THERE’S ALWAYS LIVE MUSIC, GOOD COMPANY AND A WONDERFUL ATMOSPHERE! located in the historic train station at 201 e. hwy. 66.

YOUNG ARTISTS OF GALLUP AND MCKINLEY COUNTY

TEACHER TINE HAYES AND HIS ART STUDENTS FROM MIYAMURA HIGH SCHOOL, ON DISPLAY AT 302 2ND ST.

CAMILLE’S SIDEWALK CAFÉ

STOP BY CAMILLE’S FOR YOU FAVORITE SPECIALTY COFFEE, SMOOTHIE OR ENTRÉE. LOCATED AT 306 S. SECOND ST.

SAMMY C’S

SHALLOW GALLERY

FEATURING THE WORKS OF STEPHEN ATHENS IN “GRANTED SERENITY.” YOU CAN SEE THE WORKS OF THIS LOCAL ARTIST AT 207 W. COAL (NEXT TO THE EL MORRO THEATRE).

BEEMAN JEWELRY

ONE-OF-A-KIND JEWELRY CREATIONS MADE WITH STONES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. COME IN AND CHECK OUT OUR NEW DESIGNS. LOCATED AT 211 W. COAL AVE.

MAKESHIFT GALLERY

STOP IN A 213 W. COAL AVE. TO CHECK OUT OUR WIDE SELECTION OF UNIQUE, LOCAL & HANDMADE GIFT ITEMS!

PLANET MAR’S

NATIVE ARTIST WILBERT MANNING WIll FEATURE HIS JEWELRY ALONGSIDE RICK SARRACINO AND HIS 5-MINUTE CARICATURES OF ANY AND ALL ONLOOKERS.

LOCATED IN THE BACK OF MAKESHIFT GALLERY, COME PERUSE AN AMAZING COLLECTION OF VINTAGE CLOTHING AT VERY REASONABLE PRICES.

FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM PERFORMING ARTS DANCE STUDIO

OPEN FOR BUSINESS DURING ARTSCRAWL AT 220 W. COAL AVE.

FREE DANCE DEMONSTRATIONS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY LIVE STREET PERFORMANCES. THE F.O.F. DANCE STUDIO LOCATED AT 115 W. COAL AVE THERE WILL ALSO BE A PERFORMANCE BY THE FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM TALENTED AND BEAUTIFUL TRIBAL FUSION BELLY DANCERS! DON’T MISS IT! LOCATED AT 107 W. COAL AVE. IN DOWNTOWN GALLUP NM

The Open Studio/Outsider Gallery

OUR GROUP SHOW OF CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS & CRAFTS UNIQUE, ONE-OF-A KIND & HANDMADE CREATED BY OUR VARIOUS ARTISTS!

ART 123

THE TALENTED ARTIST MICHAEL GAMBILL WILL BE FEATURING “COLLAPSE.” LOCATED AT 123 W. COAL AVE.

MAX’S TATTOO ZONE AMERICAN BAR

COME HANG OUT AT A CLASSIC LOCAL ESTABLISHMENT, IN BUSINESS SINCE 1938. LOCATED AT 221 W. COAL AVE.

INDUSTRY GALLERY

ALICIA ESPARZA WILL HAVE HANDMADE ARTS AND CRAFTS ALONGSIDE MICHAEL DENNY AND HIS GEOMETRICAL PAINTINGS. PLEASE COME DOWN TO VIEW THESE TALENTED ARTISTS AT 226 W. COAL AVE

WINONA HOUSE

SHE WILL FEATURE SHOWCASE HER TALENTS OF LIVE PAINTING ON THE STREETS OF DOWNTOWN GALLUP NM. COME AND WITNESS HER IN ACTION!

BILL MALONE TRADING COMPANY

THE COFFEE HOUSE

TRADITIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN ART INCLUDING JEWELRY, RUGS AND MORE AT 235 W. COAL AVE.

EL MORRO THEATre

LIVE MUSIC FOR ARTSCRAWL AND A GREAT ATMOSPHERE. MARLA DE ARMOND CHAVEZ WILL BE ON HAND WITH HER ONE-OF-A-KIND JEWELRY.

COME IN AND ENJOY GREAT COFFEE ALONG WITH THE WELCOMING ATMOSPHERE. FEATURING GUEST ARTISTS AND LIVE MUSIC DURING ARTSCRAWL. LOCATED AT 203 W. COAL AVE. A century of animation short films. free admission with any purchase at concessions. located at 207 w. coal ave.

COAL ST. PUB

For more information or to get your space listed each month, email artscrawlgallup@gmail.com

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Richardson’s Trading Co. Since 1913

505.722.4762 • 505.722.9424 fax • rtc@cnetco.com 222 W. Hwy. 66 • Gallup, NM 87301

RioWestMall.com • 505.722.7281 • 1300 W. Maloney Ave

www.richardsontrading.com

January 2014

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