Time Passes, Everything Changes (Right?)

This is something of a catch-all category for any posts that focus on the point where one thing stops and another begins. If that dynamic is the main theme, this is where you’ll find it. It could be anything, though. As of this writing [1-2-2012], there are over 100 posts in the Change category. On this page alone, you’ll see stories about deciding that a desert might not be a home, the great Taos Gas Outage of 2011, how good it felt to get BUFFALO LIGHTS in the Amazon Kindle bookstore, an ephiphany about what’s right under my nose, and a whole lot more. Things that happen, and then everything is different. A shift.

I’m hardly ever satisfied, so when things break in my direction, I tend to get excited. When things go bad, I may turn dark and scary. Items dealing with endings may be kind of heavy, but most posts are positive. If you like the surprise of making progress, especially in relationships of all kinds, go ahead and have a look. — JHF

Astrological Breakdown Blues

by John Hamilton Farr on December 24, 2009 · 2 comments

in Change

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. [...]

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Fight Different

by John Hamilton Farr on December 14, 2009 · 9 comments

in Change

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 John Hamilton Farr on November 22, 2009 · 4 comments

in Change

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 John Hamilton Farr on November 14, 2009 · 2 comments

in Change, Yellowhammer Farm

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 John Hamilton Farr on November 3, 2009 · 3 comments

in Change

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 John Hamilton Farr on September 7, 2009 · 3 comments

in Change

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 [...]

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The Walker

by John Hamilton Farr on August 26, 2009 · 6 comments

in Change

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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The Joy of Hopelessness, or Why is it You Can Never Find an Angel of Doom When You Need One?

by John Hamilton Farr on July 14, 2009 · 10 comments

in Change

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 [...]

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Sleepwalking Through History

by John Hamilton Farr on July 11, 2009 · 4 comments

in Change

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 John Hamilton Farr on July 9, 2009 · 0 comments

in Change

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, [...]

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