Breathing Stone: Living Small in a Southwest Village

For almost four years in the early 1990s, writer, artist, and backcountry hiker Betsy James rented part of an old adobe near the center of a New Mexican village. She had worked for years with cultures very like those that had shaped Placitas-in Mexico, Albuquerque, Zuni Pueblo. She gave this place her best mortal attention, and recorded what she could. This is the result.