THE GOOD MONEY TRAIL
Dear Editor,
I just love doing this column! And…..when I got the checks I was so happy. I am sending the money from the column to my friend Noris, a Gnabe indigenous lady. It is just the right amount to pay the monthly school fees for her children. When I met her 5 years ago, she was 23 and she had 5 children, one eleven years old at that time. She is really making a break into the future. Her community was a non-cash economy when we met. Five years in today’s world has changed things in a hurry. Her community is the next one we will get wired up for internet.
—Paula LaBrot, Columnist, All Things Connected
LOWER TOPANGA
Dear Editor,
Thank you for publishing the piece about the DRUIDS OF TOPANGA exhibit at the Ernie Wolf Gallery. Recently, I went to Lower Topanga to try to photograph all the areas that James Mathers painted. Attached is a picture of the landscape in the painting that went with the article.
—Pablo Capra
THE MESSENGER MAN
Dear Editor,
As a lifelong Topanga resident, I so appreciate this wonderful newspaper, and was excited to see the the lovely new look, and layout, that was recently unveiled. However, I also feel as if I’ve lost an old friend, due to the disappearance of the messenger man! I have always loved this illustration, which has been synonymous with The Messenger for so long, and am deeply saddened by his absence from the paper’s nameplate. This journeyman, with his walking stick, satchel, and instrument on his back, evokes so much, without even showing his face. He is a sage, a seeker, a minstrel. He is all of us, searching for truths. He is a Topanga treasure; and I hope you will consider returning him to the pages of The Messenger.
Much Thanks,
~Azura Storozynsky
