April 17 th Sunday - we're in one of those mid -Spring unseasonable (unreasonable?) cold spells...but that's pretty normal for April   ["April is the cruelest Month, bearing lilacs out of the deadlands, mixing memory with desire, stirring dull roots with Spring rains..."    from Prufrock,  ]*  we sure need the moisture so us locals are content with the week long cloud cover!   And despite the cold,  lots of people are out visiting galleries in Santa Fe,  and yesterday the gallery had not just one but two good sales:  the first,    2 Steinhoff etchings and the other, Friedrich Geier's Rickies 2nd Dream  to collectors from Pennsylvania.    Hardly anyone buys on [* In this rather bizarre polarized political climate poetry studied more than 50 years ago, creeps into mind. ]
After all this is a gallery of "politically engaged artists" and  my commentary on the ABSURDITY (the computer does this to me when I start typing too fast),  moral bankruptedness and downright insanity of Congress authorizing billions to upgrade our whole arsenal of nuclear weapons in this time of civilization being on a precipice ....global warming threatens survival, little expenditure on our crumbling infrastructure, education, etc.  was finally published by  the New Mexican under Opinions, My View. Empires always eventually crumble, and greed and power grabs don't steer the 'ship of state'  into a sustainable harbour.  (image borrowed from Leonard Cohen)  MS