A Year Towards Tomorrow

1/7/2026

Did you ever watch any of those 1960s American sci-fi films set in desert terrain where the female characters were always over-dressed? Well this starts off with two “VISTA” gals heading turning up to chop wood dressed in twin-set and heels. It’s that hilarious scene that rather sets the tone for this pretty condescending look at how some of the country’s poverty stricken minorities can be helped with a bit of goodwill and some cooking lessons. A sense of irony isn’t wasted as they head to help a Navajo community that would have been successfully self-sufficient until the white man invaded their lands and then confned them to unsustainable reservations where they promptly lost many of the skills that had enabled them to have been hitherto completely independent. Now, a well meaning graduat