Nighthawk Press (2020, 177 pp.)
Conversations beginning with Where are you from? don t interest these authors, longtime Taoseños Richard and Annette Rubin. They have moved beyond worrying about who is Native, born here or carpetbagger, and after 50 years in New Mexico working as physician (Richard), educators and community activists, the couple affirm rather, that identity includes consciousness as well as origin facts.
Usefulness, then, is their theme, and this honest work is about sharing the fruits of one s labor with community. Or, as Rumi is quoted in an epigraph: The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is ready.