Simple Farmers song and lyrics by Robert Mirabal

Guitar intro:


Above the clouds high upon the mountain top
Simple farmers living simple lives
Praying to the river to complete my life
Reading the sun like my ancestors before

There's no doubt that I've been here before
As i plow my fore fathers land 
As i sow this humble seed 
There's no doubt that I've seen this before

I know this land like the palm of my hands
Channel the water to the rhythm's of life
I fear no man its just me and my wife
This is our fate i don't need to translate

Cause there's no doubt that we have lived here before
Oh we pray for the gentle rain
that bless my simple fields
There's no doubt this is where I'll die
 

Quiet farmer lets his corn fields sing
Nothing more free as a man on his knees
Working the earth that's mans only worth
Praying for the harvest and dance for the rain

There's no doubt this is what we adore
To live this simple life 
to walk this pueblo life
There's no doubt i have been here before

(Tag)
Among the simple fields
And among healing rains
Among silent plains
Among the simple fields
There's no doubt this is where we belong.

                              END

The video starts with pictures of a weekly farmers market in Ecuador specifically in a beloved community of Otavalo I have tried to go back recently to visit however this year Aspen and Dawn will be going to Peru.

Po'pay Trail Week 2

Steve and I took a look at the canyons where the trail could come out on the upper end near Pilar. The best bet is Agua Caliente (Hot Water) Canyon which has a surprising amount of water flowing for this time of year. It's being diverted to a pond.

Po'pay's Duck Pond

The Po'pay Trail

In 1680, Po’pay lead the first successful revolt in what is now America—The Pueblo Rebellion. The revolt was centered at Taos Pueblo and runners were sent out to the other Pueblos—as far as the Hopi Mesas, some 400 miles away. The Spanish were driven back to Mexico.

Steve Parks and I have been writing a script for a one-man performance in which Robert portrays Po’pay.

Concurrent with these activities, Steve and I have been attempting to trace sections of the old trail between Taos and San Juan, a distance of some 45 miles. Saturday we looked for indicators of the trail between Pilar and Dixon—a stretch of about six miles. Little is known of Po'pay, but we do know he ran this trail shortly before the revolt.

Steve and Aspen

We're searching for petroglyphs which might suggest way-points in the trail. It's well over a thousand years old and was used until the mid-1800's.

--N. Zink

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Indian Time Watch

        So the shop has been open for a couple of days, there was an insane wind storm today so I closed a little early. Many of the people asked about the different pieces of art so I well be posting often on subjects pertaining to the various items in the Pueblo Shop. So here we go; I was asked about the INDIAN TIME WATCH,  the idea can be called Island time, Corn time, or Taos time its basically when your in a place where time as we know it gets sucked up by some strange vortex. Last year when I would go into the studio at Nelson's and work it seemed like time would vanish I would get a call and find out that a few hours had already passed me by so I decided on a little project that honored the Sprite that steals time. the first one ones that I did were made of some elk bones that I had laying around, I cut them up into small 1/4" pieces and then polished them really shiny tied some buck-skin on the ends and had a little novelty item that la tourista's really had a kick out of. We sold them all however I couldn't get the nerve up to do more cause I hated the smell of burnt bones ugh... more like argh in the back of my throat.
So the new designs are in but I wanted to show how people can tie them. PRESS PLAY

Enjoy the new novelty and when some guy in a suit with a ROLEX on that doesn't work asks you, "what time it is" just tell him, "its Indian Time" and look a little spacey at him..heehee