Life or death?

This week I should have liked to have been in Window Rock, Arizona.  I should particularly like to have been there on Tuesday to see the film, Ground Zero -Sacred Ground. It shows Three Rivers, an ancient rock art site, where over 10,000 petroglyphs were created by the Jonada Mogollon people between 900 and 1400 AD. There are birds, fish, humans, insects and plants, as well as geometric designs, found over an area of 50 acres of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert. There are trails to walk and campsites where you can stay to see them for yourself.
Some  thirty five miles away, however, is the Trinity nuclear test site, now called the White Sands Missile Range. This lies in New Mexico, near the area of the desert aptly named Jornada del Muerto, or "Route of the dead man."
The one desert holds the pictorial  history of man living with nature, the other, a history of its destruction, written in the sand.
This contrast is explored in a description of the film, which can be read at the brilliantly visual website of the Uranium Film Festival. They staged the film's showing along with many others I would have liked to have seen, in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Window Rock, as part of their travelling film festival.
The next festival stopover is also in the USA, in Washington from February 10th-12th.  The festival program is on their website at http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/index.php/en/travelling-festival/usa-2014/washington  After that, it travels to New York City on February 14th until February 18th.