Something is going on. A panic has departed. My brain is working differently. There’s a qualitative difference. I don’t quite know how to tell you, but it’s like discovering this trust and now it’s got me. I think I caught it hiking on the mesa by the gorge. My father used to measure everything. There [...]
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Doesn’t look too bad. Maybe I’ll fix the tires, suspension, steering, brakes, clutch, and oil leak.
Here we are again, just seventy-two hours after I was ready to blow up everything, toss the whole deal, run away and join the circus, you name it. Just rained right down again out of a clear blue sky. You really should have been here, it was just amazing. There I was, mad enough at [...]
What, you don’t keep your gasoline & paint thinner on a shelf outdoors?
Is this just monkey brain or something else? I’m having the oddest reaction to accumulating enough minor inheritances for a down payment on a house. Namely, I want to keep it! Or is this a reaction to where we are? There’s an article in the latest Taos News by a most unhappy woman that anyone [...]
This section of the trail I call “The Falling Place,” because twice something knocked me down…
This is where I go hiking. Usually I walk two miles out, then turn around. Sometimes I go farther. If I kept walking, the loop back to the parking lot would take nine miles. Now that would be some exercise, about three hours’ worth! As it is, by doing this every other day for over [...]
I know, I know… Just do whatever the hell it says
The wind howled long and hard outside last night. Every now and then a dead branch from the giant elm growing out of the side of the old adobe clattered against the roof or just missed the kitchen window. If it wanted to get loose, however, it would have had to fight a whole lot [...]
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