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My Window and Mi Compañeros a Sur: Season’s Greetings!

Guadalupe #41, El Paso — Dec. 18, 2009 This third floor win­dow looks out onto the Cor­dova Bridge to Juarez, three blocks to the south. It’s the Sea­son. Guadalupe, I will light you every night –and a string of Christ­mas lights too– for the rest of the hol­i­day. If any­one in Juarez sees this, please wave […]

New Mexico Juke

Las Cruces, NM/Dec. 14, 2009 Juke boxes. They’re  a “warm fuzzy,” no mat­ter how you cut it. No? I just wanna dance. It’s the hol­i­days. Time to dance. And stare at the wall (and the Web) and have lux­u­ri­ous long lunches (and per­son­ally enrich­ing) with good friends, now, in the rush of my life, long over­looked. I’m […]

A Warm Farewell

A piece writ­ten to my pho­tog­ra­phy stu­dents at the end of a fine semes­ter at New Mex­ico State Uni­ver­sity. For­give the “first per­son.” Orig­i­nally posted on their class web­site at www.nmsu.documentaryshooters.com: Brucini w/New Blan­ket from a Good Friend, El Paso –Dec. 9, 2009 So it comes to this, the semes­ter ends, we go our own way, we […]

El Centro de El Paso

El Cen­tro,  El Paso — September 2009

Fuzz

Alameda in Mist, Decem­ber 2, 2009 The view south, across Alameda street, across the Chamizal, three blocks beyond, across the bridge, into Juarez, into Chi­huahua, into Mex­ico, beyond. Usu­ally the view is razor sharp. The last few days have fuzzed things up: snow, rain, and, now, this morn­ing, fog. Been look­ing south across this razor sharp landscape […]