Differences: two trees – one life
This is my favorite tree on this New Mexican farm on which I live. It has a mystical quality like the one in that movie, Avatar, about the blue-skinned people…
warm pots, warm lives
It is good to stand by as things are being transformed by fire. It is a mystical process. Everything is changing and yet only the fires move, undulate like snakes,…
vulnerability in wildernesses
"... I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and His train filled the sanctuary. Above him stood the Seraphim; each had six wings; with two he…
brooding in a safe place
Wind howls on the farm here in New Mexico in late summer and fall. Not being a meteorologist, I am not sure why this happens, but it does. It is…
stress
When glass on clay cools, it crazes - a technical pottery term for the tiny fractures in the glass which occur as the clay and the glass cool and shrink…
the balanced load
Kai-the-dog loves nothing more than to find, and subsequently carry, a very large branch on our walks. He keeps an eye out for one the way we humans are always…
the pueblo Koshare
This is a koshare - a native-american pueblo clown with a simultaneous reputation both for exposing truth in a playful and mischievous way, as well as one of exhibiting a…
fire and tumbleweed
Sunsets here at the farm can be breath-taking. At a glance the image looks like a forest fire or a volcanic explosion. It is just a sunset. It is so…
The horse and the rider
With friends at the Santa Fe Grand Prix, I recently watched horses and their riders exhibit the fine connection which makes for great horseback riding. The jumps were high and…
change
Today I awoke to find my front yard different. This view, which greets me every morning with my coffee, prayer, study and silence like an airplane stewardess showing me to…