Man, I am set. Not one, but two full pickup loads of split 500-year-old piñon! Never mind that it hasn’t snowed sinced mid-December and we’ve had sunny days in the fifties. Winter still might make a comeback, and if it does, well hey. You can read about the wood and UFOs and more in this [...]
writing life
Wednesday evening sunset
Thoughts from the past pull me down. Can’t look at this stuff. I’m older now, with more awareness. Sure, I’d do things differently in an impossible world. The horror is misplaced, in other words. I imagine something that never could have been. There is no crime! Women are better at this, I think. More present. [...]
Onward
Almost tried to buy a house that wasn’t right. See what forgetting who you are can do? When we moved from Maryland almost 15 years ago, I sold or gave away most of my tools. And I had tools for everything. If you needed something fixed or built, I probably could have done it. There [...]
Last night’s sunset reflected in the east
There’s not much snow, and that’s just fine with me. New Mexico is drying up, however. Big dirt sucking up the wet, rocks and mountains hungry for whatever moisture falls. They say that all these trees will die in just a couple generations. No one can believe that, though; didn’t we just track in a [...]
Found this in a tree on a deserted mesa
This post has morphed to mystery status! Previous content under evaluation. (We work with live ammo around here, ya know.) Enjoy this New Mexico totem. And yes, I really did find it in a tree. You can read the story in my TAOS SOUL book. It’s the last chapter, actually: “Piñon Lift,” which almost gives [...]
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