Until that comes together, I am living a basic life and being a co-parent. I mediate on the best way to use what life I have left to do the right things to make this, a better World for not only my children but for the next seven generations.
At this writing (and I hope to write more) besides afterschool pick ups, I walk the dog, occasionally wash dishes and collect water from a tap to an underground made almost a hundred years ago. I have retirement income from my 25 years at the Houston Chronicle Newspaper/Hearst Corporation. I am working through an agency for opportunities to substitute teach and putter with a Visual S.T.E.A.M. curriculum. I also work part time at the Smith’s Food and Drug Store (Kroger chain) that I use as my ferryboat bodhisattva job (more on that later).
These are a few things happening with my archive and will use this venue to post updates and details over the coming years.
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First, please to announce the agency of my work to Witnes (government name Michael Zapata) , Andrew Benavidez and T. Eric Monroe. They are completing a whole business plan and have completed a mini doc on me. They will accomplish what I could not: creating a revenue stream to benefit my children. Blessings. Inquiries can be sent to tdoteric@gmail.com, 732/371-7876. www.tdoteric.com
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UH Library Collections will present a survey of the archive starting January 2019 through the early summer. Something like the 2012 “Zen”trospective at Redbud Gallery but on a much larger scale.
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I am honored to being a book to be published in 2019 by the University of Texas. I am one of 125 photographers to represent Texas from 1900 to present.
Thank you for the moments of your time
Ben Tecumseh DeSoto
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