[…] and listening to President Kimball speak at the Rose Bowl when I saw the Mormons for ERA -hired plane tow its banner—“Mother in Heaven Loves ERA”—through the skies of Pasadena. I was so curious, […]
[…] a people. These myths shape ideologies surrounding built and natural environments. What is understood in the twenty -first century as “nature” is really a curated environment built around industrial needs, urbanization, and selected areas […]
[…] not only like a family member to her, but additionally, the term hermana is used among Spanish -speaking members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter–day Saints (also known as Mormons) to signify […]
Uncle Akumu has tattoos. Big, thick pe’a lines shout his ancient Samoan genealogy as they crisscross his thighs. On his arms he carries his own story. There’s Aunty Lani’s name surrounded by vines and pua…
[…] Mormons after they settled the American West. He did this by superimposing the constellation Ursa Major right -side–up, slightly askew but to scale, on an 1860s map of the United States and its Territories. […]
[…] asked someone else to play the organ. I’ve been playing the organ in this ward for forty -eight years. When I first learned to play, I had to pump the air through the pipes […]
Old George sat on an upturned half -barrel cleaning his gun. It only ever shot blanks these days, but that didn’t matter much. A fellow outlaw’d once told him the state of your gun’s […]
[…] powder blue carpeting, recently vacuumed into long backgammon patterns. What even was carpet, anyway? What was Coca -Cola anymore? Chicken cordon bleu? Automatic ice? This fireside with no fire? Outside and beyond the chain […]
[…] my shoulder into the living room. I stepped aside to give him an unobstructed view: the black -and–white family photos of Allison and me against a weathered brick wall in Old Pasadena, Henry and […]
[…] belt, face smeared with something red. I’m checking the expiration date on the back of a suspicious -looking soup can; down the aisle, a woman haggles with the butcher over a pound of lamb. […]