Earlier that afternoon I tried to sleep, but I was just too tense. (Daytime naps are sometimes dangerous for me, due to things that wander in behind closed eyes.) After dinner, standing beside the wood store, my eyelids weighed a thousand pounds. I looked up at the clock: “Hey, it’s only seven-thirty! I am so [...]
healing
Biodegradable adobes, yellow cottonwoods, & more
There they go, the leaves, brilliant yellow and then they’re gone. Another cold front with 60 mph gusts like we had this afternoon and that’ll be the end. Seems like we hardly just got started, and now we’re at the end again. I don’t know about this mountain shit. It’s just so impossibly, terribly, beautiful [...]
Windy, cold air blowing in from Colorado, early sunset on the way
Must be time to get the mail. Something to do away from the computer. No, I will not step into the stupid filthy plastic shoes that never wear out. Not this time. Why haven’t I thrown them away? (We know.) The better ones I have to tug and pull at to get the elastic over [...]
Shot from dirt road by the mailbox
For days now it’s been the air. Just the air. Breezy, cool, clean, just humid enough. Astounding. The air that heals. Transformative air. You could give air like this to people and they wouldn’t believe it. You made that up, they’d say. Step outside though, the first thing someone says is, “Oh, the air!” You [...]
Gorge and green high desert with Tres Orejas volcano
The new glasses were amazing. Sharp and clear with unscratched polarized clip-ons. I felt like I could see forever. Maybe I could. Five years with the old pair and the old prescription. The glasses cost five hundred twenty-five dollars back then, too. The new ones were from across the ocean somewhere and cost seventy-five. Older [...]
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