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“Our Turn at this Earth” is broadcast Thursdays at 6:44 pm on HPPR.
I once read a beautiful definition of a spring: “a place where, without the agency of man, water flows from rock or soil.” That water can just appear in this way, often in a very dry place, has enchanted me ever since I was a young woman, traveling and camping in the Mojave Desert. In those miraculous places where water trickled through cracks in granite or up from an otherwise dry creek bed,
“Our Turn at this Earth” is broadcast Thursdays at 6:44 pm on HPPR.
When I farmed with my father in the mid-1980s, I often expressed my concern that the water we were withdrawing from the Ogallala Aquifer, to irrigate our crops, would one day run out. My father, who was one of those hardy old-timers—a grandson of pioneers—said, “Don’t worry. Big Daddy will put the plug in before it’s too late.” By “Big Daddy,” he meant the government.
“Our Turn at this Earth” is broadcast Thursdays at 6:44 pm on HPPR radio.
According to legends passed down from generation to generation among the Hopi Indians, humanity has occupied three previous worlds, each of which was destroyed because we failed to honor the instructions of our creator. I learned about this myth from a man named James, a Hopi farmer whose family I stayed with during a 1980s visit to Hotevilla,
“Our Turn at this Earth” airs every Thursday at 6:44 pm CT on KANZ.
When, as a young woman, I had the good fortune to stay for a few days in the home of a Hopi farming family, I saw many similarities between my host, James, and my own father. Both men had spent virtually every day of their lives outdoors, tilling soil and caring for crops.
“Our Turn at this Earth” airs every Thursday at 6:44 pm CT on KANZ.
When I was a young woman, a friend who assisted the Hopi Indians with their causes invited me to join him on a visit to Hotevilla, the most traditional village on the Hopi Indian reservation. The Hopi descended from ancient Pueblo cultures that emerged in the desert Southwest around the 12th Century BC. They dwell in the region we now think of as northern Arizona.
