Circling Eloh: A Meditation
First the war, thousands of miles to the east. No. First other, older wars with forgotten names, unhousing and unhoming the Apache Nation. The Arapaho Nation. The Cheyenne Nation. The Pueblo. The Shoshone. The Comanche. The Kiowa. The Navajo. There is a river run red, there is a lake, there is a world on fire who can never be regained. How can we reclaim when name and place are lost? When even ponderosa and lodgepole are uprooted for maple and elm?
There is water. There are a hundred years. There is not enough water. There are fifty years. There is the town of Stout, and then there is not. First the young couples leave for Fort Collins, over the hill, or for Wyoming, forty miles north. Then the families. Then the Bureau of Reclamation comes with letters and phone calls and men in uniforms and there is no choice left but to move. Some bring their homes, some fall into sheds provided five miles to the south.
Local restaurants where you can get holiday meals, special treats
By Donny Wong
Here s a list of some of the festive treats you can get.
Aba
Chef CJ Jacobson has created a menu for a feast perfect for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Specials on the menu include wild mushroom hummus, stracciatella with persimmon, grilled chicken kebab with lemon dill rice, braised short rib with gunpowder spiced potatoes, barberry glaze and tamarind jus, crispy Brussels sprouts, thyme roasted carrots and labneh, and Isot double chocolate cake. All items are served cold with reheating instructions.
Orders should be placed by
December 22 at 3 p.m. with pickups and deliveries on December 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Details here.