NOMAD DREAMING

This week Janis truck and I visited a nearby compost factory, or what most would refer to as a horse farm. Under a blazing (hot even for this desert at this time of year) sun I shoveled beautiful soil enhancing nutrients into totes. Hunter, the canine overlord supervised somewhat timidly from his allotted piece of shade. Gordy, one of the rather well rounded factory workers, was only interested in possibility of edible opportunities, as his girth testifies. This sweet fat equ

Striving to shake the freezing grip of dread (cold is so not my thing), in late January I took a little roadtrip trip into the northern interior of enchantment. It’s was lots of things. Including a visit to Millicent Roger’s Art Museum in Taos. Where I spent some time with Quilted Survivance the Susan Hudson and Navajo Quilt Project exhibition of fabric art called quilts , but probably these cloth creations are never going to drape a bed or keep a body warm. Beyond, of cou

The sun and full moon hang in balance on opposite horizons as I wander into the dawn of this edition of the seasonal cross quarter day known in some circles as Imbolc, St Brigid’s day or sometimes even Groundhog Day. Whatever you and your culture call this annually occurring alignment of earth and sun, moon and stars, the mid point between midwinter solstice and spring equinox, it’s often a time for weather forecasting. It does not take advanced initiation or education to pr

If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Ludwig Wittgenstein Always vulnerable to mail order catalogues, when seed vendors started touting their end of year sales, I panicked. I don’t have enough space to grow everything on offer! I considered buying or renting a vacant lot to extend the urban food farm. If the world is falling apart, might as well go all in on flower farming. At least the