EL INDIO CACAMA

Sometimes the land tells you it is time to move on. And when your very existence relies on what the land says, you gotta listen.

Sometimes the cows tell you that too, but the cows say a lot of things that aren’t true.

My dad has had to deal with the land pushing him on his whole life. But now he and the land have figured some stuff out. When the land says, “No tomatoes this year,” dad says “How about garlic?”

“Or Figs! How about some sweet, sweet figs?”

The Figman of New Mexico speaks his truth: