go visit the priest and the ministers of the protestant churches and rope them into yr project. Don’t lend money to anyone. tell people you are interested in history and would like to get life histories of occupations and families, marriages, and births and deaths. build up genealogical tables. Study the local market, the agricyuklture, the use of chemicals and fertilizers, and visit the cemetery a lot, as well as the local hospital. Check pout what people watch on tv.

good luck,

mick

“Sensitive Research”— a designation of the Institutional Review Board

Letterist International—“Psychogeography could set for itself the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behaviors of individuals”—Guy-Ernest Debord, “Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography”

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Reading on the plane about Los Viejos and their active, loving, satisfied long lives. About the “Mixing of Generations and a Respect for Elderly”—makes me think of Mama Anna being put away and dying in the nursing home. Mistaking her granddaughter for her daughter, her daughter for her sister. Our culture has little use for the old. Would I put my parents away? No. I hope not, I hope I can care for them and make their last years livable. If we still lived communally then the burden would not fall just on me. Would I serve them breakfast, bath them, bring mom flowers and watch movies with dad? Well they definitely wouldn’t live together—so I would have to travel back & forth. I could take a break from school & teaching, spend my time writing, and care for them. Will I?