Fax of Life

KAYAPO COURAGE: “The Amazon tribe has beaten back ranchers and gold miners and famously stopped a dam. Now its leaders must fight again or risk losing a way of life.” ~ Chip Brown.  photography by Martin Schoeller - full story & gallery via National Geographic (January 2014)

“YNHIRE expresses his identity as a warrior with a headdress of parrot feathers.”

“BEPRO wears the beads and cotton-wrapped earrings that boys receive as part of their naming ceremony.”

“ROPNI, an internationally known chief, is one of the few Kayapo who still wear the mahogany lip plate.”

“PHNH-OTI has an inverted V shaved into her scalp, a ceremonial female practice.”

“BEPRAN-TI wears an impressive display of feathers for his betrothal ceremony, a Kayapo rite of passage.”

“We’ll dance a little, you and me.” “Do we have time?” ”We have time. Always.”

“Summer school students of Miss Margaret Morris rehearse on the beach, 1934,” ph. Kent Walmert

Gregory Orr, Concerning the Book That is the Body of the Beloved

“Rock ‘n Roll sur les Quais de Paris (Rock ‘n Roll under the quays in Paris - detail),” ca. 1955, ph. Paul Almasy

Jack Gilbert, “Ovid in Tears”

William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale

“Couple at a dance, 1960 (detail)″, ph. Diane Arbus

Albert Camus, Algerian Chronicles

Wendell Berry, “Horses”

Mediterraneo, (dir. Gabriele Salvatores, 1991).