Linda Durham – Ancestors: Old Relatives, New Perspectives

As part of the research for my next memoir, tentatively titled: (Don’t) Make A Spectacle Of Yourself, I’ve been going through old letters, photographs, and family Bibles. Memories from the 40s, 50s, and 60s are taking on new meaning, appreciation, and understanding—not just about some of the “characters” in my family…but about TIME and its teachings. As an octogenarian (9 x 9), I discover that it is still possible to learn valuable lessons from those long-gone aunts, grandparents, and even a great grandmother who I met–only once–when I was barely three.   
  Linda Durham is a storyteller, author, and humanitarian. For thirty-three years, she was the owner and director of Linda Durham Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, where she supported the careers of scores of New Mexico Artists.
Her memoir, Still Moving, reflects her strong engagement with the world as does her small book, The Trans-Siberian Railway Journey: Chronicle of a Russian Adventure.
She resides off-grid–on Glorieta Mesa–with her partner (Francois-Marie Patorni), three cats, a very old dog, and four pampered chickens.   During the past year, with the help of two strong and talented rock workers, she and “FM” built a traditional New Mexican “capella” / chapel from rocks collected on their land.   At age seventy, Linda made a solo trip “around the world in seventy days”–planting seeds of peace. More recently, her travels have taken her to Ireland, Mexico, Poland and Ukraine—and to Paris, this past May/June, for a writers’ workshop.