NOMAD DREAMING

Though it's hard to tell the exact moment, the beautiful ruby coloured tuna (prickly pear fruit) on the outback opuntia seemed ready to...

"Our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call...

Today's witness of the transmutation of night into day at Caballo Lake is all about birds. I launch in a rosy numinosity of almost...

More rose quartz than ruby, the season’s first pomegranate jewels, quintessential desert fruit, spill onto my plate today, sweet and...

The desert offered up a prickly Valentine this morning. Tuna aren't quite ready for picking yet, but when they are I have plans for...

The ripening figs are bagged against the birds. After noticing avian interest, I spent the early morning cool tying little drawstring...

Today began with a jalapeño lentil loaf (soaked green lentils blended with coconut flour, garlic, jalapeños and some liquid) filling the...

Some days I drink my first cup of tea at the lake, with a vessel and a paddle. Everyone has a favourite time of day. Mine is the liminal...

Noticing that today July 30th, is world embroidery day I thought to share one of my works in progress here. With the prevailing 100...

In memoriam Milan Kundera, brother in word and thought: "There is no perfection, only life" In these days of extreme heat, the best hours...

I do not often get invited to exhibit artworks in this little town, since I'm not much out there strutting my stuf,f preferring the...

"Freedom is something that dies unless it is used" Hunter S Thompson It's that time of year again here in the northern Chihuahuan desert:...

With temperatures in the hundreds (Fahrenheit) all this week, I took a little drive into Gila National Forest in the Black (Diablo)...

"The present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call...

The last of the marketworthy apricots have been picked and sold. Six or seven pounds of slightly flawed fruit were dehydrated. Now it's...

I don't know who decides these things but it appears that today, June 10th, is Knit in Public Day. I took my knitting along to the...

Apricots were two days from picking when they got pounded by a brief but devastatingly intense hailstorm a few evenings ago. Instead of...

"To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it the way it really was. It means to seize hold of a memory as it...

"Homes aren't refuges from history, they are where history ends up." Bill Bryson in At Home: a Short History of Private Life The magic of...

This week's kitchen alchemy: a really simple loaf of buckwheat bread. There's no leavening agent or kneading required. Raw buckwheat is...