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We are the Aspen Song Kids from Taos Pueblo, a beautiful place in Northern New Mexico. Our mission is to preserve our culture, our heritage, our tradition, and our language. We do that through our art. We give our thanks to our elders and our ancestors. Our grandparents and great-grandparents were artists. If it were not for their hard work, we would not be here today. We carry on their legacy. We give thanks to the artists who came before. We get our name, Aspen Song Kids, from our great-great grandfather whose name was Aspen Song. We didn't know him in person as he had passed away before we were born, yet, we honor him with our name. The paintings and stories in this book were created by us, the Aspen Song Kids. Everyday, after school and on the weekends, we walk from the day school to the Pueblo village where we practice our art and practice speaking Tiwa, our native language. We love learning from the elders about the old ways so we may carry on the knowledge to our children and grandchildren in the years to come. We are proud to share our art and to honor Taos Pueblo with this book. - Aspen Song Kids

Oikos: Ecology of Northern New Mexico is the fruit of the author's nearly three decades of wildlife service in New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. In it, Steve Tapia--nature columnist for The Taos News and veteran wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Services--shares his knowledge, wit, and experience of local ecology. Ecology studies the relations of living things to their environments and to each other. This book explores the wildlife, botany, landscapes, and ecosystems of Taos and Northern New Mexico. The author's frequent refrain: "Ain't nature grand?!" sums up Steve's awe and reverence for our home, Earth, and his hometown of Taos. Reading Oikos: Ecology of Northern New Mexico, you cannot fail to be moved by the grandeur of nature and its workings. You may be inspired to become a better steward of the home we share with so many species--animal and plant. Before you know it, you might catch the ecology-buzz, too, and find yourself whistling, "Ain't nature grand?!"

This work, featuring a new introduction by scholar and doughBelly fan James J. O'Donnell, is reprinted from the original book by the author, which sold for $1 and appeared in 1954. The reprint is intended to once again put this "cowboy sage" in our sights as his writing is remarkably relevant to today's world and just plain fun to read. Rebecca Lenzini, Publisher, Nighthawk Pressdoughbelly Price writes as he lives, in complete honesty, with the laughter that comes from the heart. His thoughts on government and politics are unclouded by know-it-all­ism and inside information. He writes from the heart and he pulls no punches. You are never in doubt with Doughbelly. You know where he stands today, and he'll still be there tomorrow, and the strange and sometimes wonderful thing is: you find yourself standing with him. On laughter, on honesty, on truth. This book is filled with laughter and honesty and truth. It will take you back a few years and bring you to the present, and refresh your memory of things past . . . and most important, it will leave you with a clean taste in your mouth and laughter on your lips. No one could ask for more. Excerpted from the original Introduction to the book by FRANK O'ROURKE

We are the Aspen Song Kids from Taos Pueblo, a beautiful place in Northern New Mexico. Our mission is to preserve our culture, our heritage, our tradition, and our language. We do that through our art. We give our thanks to our elders and our ancestors. Our grandparents and great-grandparents were artists. If it were not for their hard work, we would not be here today. We carry on their legacy. We give thanks to the artists who came before. We get our name, Aspen Song Kids, from our great-great grandfather whose name was Aspen Song. We didn't know him in person as he had passed away before we were born, yet, we honor him with our name. The paintings and stories in this book were created by us, the Aspen Song Kids. Everyday, after school and on the weekends, we walk from the day school to the Pueblo village where we practice our art and practice speaking Tiwa, our native language. We love learning from the elders about the old ways so we may carry on the knowledge to our children and grandchildren in the years to come. We are proud to share our art and to honor Taos Pueblo with this book. - Aspen Song Kids

Keepin' On: Living Well with Parkinson's DiseaseRobert J. SilverSynopsisWritten for fellow Parkinson's patients, their families, and their friends, Keepin' On chronicles a life of love, loss, longing, work, sports, travel, friendship, and intimacy-all against the backdrop of progressive Parkinson's disease. Twenty chapter scenes explore issues ranging from the frustrating unpredictability of prescribed pharmaceuticals; loss of function; hope and inspiration; overcoming challenge; generosity and the kindness of strangers; the helpless concern of friends and family; expert medical care; comic relief; and more. Keepin' On defiantly rejects the initial prophecy-the crippling of body and mind. It's one person's version of a condition that varies widely in its symptomatic expressions. Keepin' On recounts binds, grinds, and occasional triumphs in a continuing quest for a fulfilling life despite Parkinson's disease.The narrative episodes offer an intimate entrée into a world alien to most, where each morning begins in semi-paralysis. As the daily cocktail of medicines takes hold, near normal mobility results, only to revert by day's end to the immobilized state in which it all began. And though there is nothing funny about Parkinson's, some of the manuscript's scenes do relate laughable moments. Examples include walking backward when unable to walk forward; pleading with an imperious ski-school director to understand that the author's aggressive skiing is actually the disability-driven lack of control; or a new female dance partner mistaking a hand tremor as the author waving to another woman dancer.The writing is intended to help inoculate Parkinson's patients against the soul-savaging corrosiveness of hopelessness and despair, and to comfort friends and family-awash in feelings of worried impotence-who love and care for them. In the end, Keepin' On recounts a refusal to surrender to Parkinson's and encouragement to Silver's fellow Parkinson's patients to keep on keepin' on.