I didn’t realize until Saturday that the Hermit’s Peak firefighters and their engines had come to us from all over the West.
Blog Posts about New Mexico
Thread Dresses
Just as I was beginning to feel discouraged came a revelation as I was getting a cup of coffee at my neighborhood hangout here in Santa Fe.
Killing the Mama Snake
I must write my story of this place… a story of the intersection of cultures here that seem to have no history or sense of conservation in common.
Is It Sunset Time for Apache Mesa Ranch?
I haven’t written about my ranch in south-eastern New Mexico, near the old town of Las Vegas, for some time. In the interval, a lot has changed.
We Go On Fighting
We always have, and we always will…
The Sea of Faith
This week’s dismaying Supreme Court decisions made me fear for the first time in my life for the future of our world, not our Democracy, always somewhat in doubt, but the spiritual, emotional and physical world we all live in.
Happy Pride
I doubt if any other town in the U.S. could celebrate Gay Pride with such a plethora of business and government floats. And with an enormous crowd composed of all ages and all genders.
Leaving
Whether I’m leaving on a short trip like this one or a long trip like the one next month, I feel the same mixture of nostalgia and apprehension…
Memorials
I dug up a pinch of the holy dirt kept in a hole in the ground in a side chapel with convenient trowels laid alongside.
Graduation Day in Snow, Colorado Springs, Colorado
The great benefit of an education in the humanities, now becoming a rarity, is its introduction via the Greek and Elizabethan playwrights to what they called “The tears in things.”