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Change

Dust on the Snow

by JHF on January 3, 2010 · 9 comments

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Rather than ice and snow or mud, this year we’re tracking in sand.
I can almost pretend it’s not winter: the constant sunlight, the clear blue sky without a trace of clouds… Only the single-digit overnight lows and the constantly burning wood stove keep me pegged to the movement of the spheres. The lack of moisture [...]

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Did You Know 4.0

by JHF on December 27, 2009 · 3 comments

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Somehow I missed this when it first came out (not very long ago), but here ’tis: an amazing amalgam of statistics that even surprised me, and I thought I was halfway hip, technology-wise…

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Astrological Breakdown Blues

by JHF on December 24, 2009 · 2 comments

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Well, here’s another take. And say what you will, this one resonates.
There’s a blog called Raging Universe that features seldom-posted intuitive takes on society informed by astrological observations. Whoever writes this is ever-so-much-more careful about their personal identity than I am, so I can’t tell you much there, but the writer is sometimes spot-on. There’s [...]

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Fight Different

by JHF on December 14, 2009 · 9 comments

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My wife says I never relax. That’s probably true.
I never stop working (“gotta catch up!”) because I was raised by farm animals and never had a career. Not even as the artist I am, because the morons in charge of my development thought that was for girly men, drug addicts, and people destined to [...]

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Burying the Dog

by JHF on November 22, 2009 · 4 comments

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Grendel, it should be noted, was an remarkable physical specimen, probably the most unusual-looking dog I’ve ever seen: part Irish wolfhound with a long goatee, he was a noble spirit and had to weigh at least 90 pounds. Someone who once shared a bed with Grendel said it was like sleeping with a deer.

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And a VW Bus Shall Lead Them

by JHF on November 14, 2009 · 2 comments

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Weird times, brothers and sisters. They poured trillions of dollars into a hole and nothing happened. We’re still burning the rain forests. Planetary alignments are getting downright spooky. Everybody knows it can’t go on, yet here we are and this we do. Why trust anything except your heart?
Something led me to unearth a half-finished [...]

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More Room at the Taos Naval Yard

by JHF on November 3, 2009 · 3 comments

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Living in Taos is like being keelhauled through a dip tank. In the end, however, there are no garrapatas.* That’s what I always say, anyway. Since last week, at least. But I have discovered a wonderful thing.
My tuner came today. A Boss TU-2. I thought I wouldn’t like it, seeing as the old Fender [...]

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I Found It

by JHF on September 7, 2009 · 3 comments

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It was only for a few moments this evening, but I did, I really did…
We were taking a pre-cocktail hour exercise hike up the mesa. My wife was in the lead as always. She bounds ahead like a deer and never stops to rest until she reaches the top, well before I do. All the [...]

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The Walker

by JHF on August 26, 2009 · 6 comments

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That’s what we call him, “the walker.” He looks to be maybe 35-40 years old, average height, with a trimmed beard and a pretty good belly on him.
My wife and I have been noticing him for the last several years, although I think we used to see him occasionally before then. He’s always on [...]

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I know I’ve written about this before, but what the hey. It’s the kind of thing that needs to be repeated, because as the learning fades, I slip back in. And why not? Who doesn’t want to be like everybody else, way down deep?
Earlier today one of my other (?) personas was ripping a fine [...]

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Sleepwalking Through History

by JHF on July 11, 2009 · 4 comments

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Obama says a second economic stimulus isn’t necessary. What else can he say?
Keeping the current flowing to the Frankenstein monster of global finance has sapped the capacity of the system to respond in any meaningful way to all the other problems we face and still won’t fix anything, because the people in charge are [...]

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Delayed Gratification

by JHF on July 9, 2009 · 0 comments

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Hey, it’s better than none!
All kinds of fine things have been happening to me since my 87-year-old mother threw me out of her house last August and my experiencing an alchemical transformation in a dream. The latter doesn’t mean what you probably think it does, but so what. (To learn more, see here.) Yes, it [...]

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