cottonwood tree in albuquerque, nm

kiplinger magazine released a survey last week stating that more millionaires, 885 households, live in los alamos, nm than anywhere else in the nation.

according to census data, new mexico has the second highest concentration of indigenous people in the us at nearly 200,000 (9% of the states population).

in late june, the las conchas fire hit the people who live in santa clara pueblo particularly hard, destroying almost half of their watershed and eighty percent of their forest. residents of the pueblo say that the ecological damage cannot be corrected in their lifetime. the wild fire that hit this area was originally headed straight for los alamos and its nuclear labs when fire departments took measures to re-route the blaze away from los alamos and into santa clara.

this is what post-colonialism looks like.

holy mary, mother of god

blessed are you as a woman and blessed is the fruit of your womb, jesus (a peasant like us!)

pray for us now and at the hour of our liberation

-a prayer recited at trinity house catholic worker during prayer hours

(photo of a friends’s trailer at the mesa outside of albuquerque, nm)