Sketch for the painting "Guitarrista in SCC" (8.5"x14" charcoal on paper; 1994) by arnoldo garcía el colibrí After Atahualpa Yupanqui The guitar, before it was a guitar, was a tree. And before the tree could become a guitar, the tree absorbed and meditated and learned and listened and allowed all the birds of the world and the forest to land on her branches. The tree learned all the songs and melodies sung by birds whether the day was cold, warm, sun-filled, blistering cold of the gloomiest...

Desfile mexicano en el Fruitvale de Oakland ( photo: arnoldo colibrí; 2006) I was born where I did not choose to have wars and warlords...

Greg Morozumi, at a community gathering in Oakland (2005) Photo: arnoldo colibrí (C) arnoldo colibri The Greg Morozumi Manifesto number...