Archive for September, 2010

Today is the one day visitors to Acoma can climb up the footholds dug into the mesa side like people did for thousands of years before, bringing them to the top, and on September 2nd, to San Estevan’s Feast Day. Acoma feels like a tiny big city in the sky on that day, with pueblo dances, a big arts and crafts fair, especially good tamales, an incredible 360 degree view, and a spectacular adobe church. (It used to be a lot more interesting before they painted the parrots and rainbows out of it. At one time there was in indoor courtyard with a mini-corn field in the middle of it, where a golden eagle was kept in a very large cage.) Acoma will always be magical and out of time, up in the middle of the air like it is, and now there are a lot more places and activities around it for visitors.

The dances go on all day…it’s about 2 and a half hours from Santa Fe. Information and maps at the Acoma Pueblo Website, http://sccc.acomaskycity.org/

The only message I thought I received from my long-dead Dad many years ago was: “Buy Toyota”. (He was right, but I didn’t pay attention.) Recently, I think he told me to “Buy Apple”.
Today’s headlines reveal that Apple Inc is on the move in many new directions, and not only does it remind me that I ignore my Dad’s advice, dead or alive, it reminds me of a conversation I had decades ago, in Los Angeles in the early ‘80’s.
It took place high up in an office building at Apple headquarters. One of the executives had me come in to do a psychic reading, and we sat at his desk overlooking the city. What came out seemed so hyperbolic I have never believed until now it might be correct. I thought I probably succumbed to the pressure to make the man feel good, as I remember stressing how successful the company would be. (At the time things were not good.). It came out that Apple was headed to be a huge player on the world stage, one of the select companies that played a giant role internationally and would be right there as the world changed, having a lot to do with everything.
The extraordinarily visionary vibe of Steve Jobs came through in the reading (I don’t remember who I read for, but I remember telling him how exciting it was to connect with the energy of the company and Job’s visionary ways because it gave me glimpses of the future. made me feel incredibly intelligent and expanded my consciousness. ) When I heard in 1997 that Jobs was coming back to Apple to be the interim president, I bought the stock. (Then I forgot what a genius he was, and sold way too soon.) Maybe Apple is going to morph, like an entity that figures out how to master organizing on a much bigger level, into something much more fantastic. People are capable of amazing things.