Something very strange is going on: BOOTHBAY HARBOR (NEWS CENTER) — Some boats were scratched and docks damaged Tuesday afternoon when low tide became high within a matter of minutes. Locals in the area say it happened about 6 or 7 times throughout the afternoon. They say it surged in within a matter of 5 [...]
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Life among the giants… This fall my wife is teaching one day per week at Adams State College in Alamosa, CO. It’s about 90 miles one-way, and most of the trip is a sublime cruise on an empty two-lane road through some of the most stunning scenery in this part of the world. That’s saying [...]
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It’s weather drama time in northern New Mexico. Today we had 50 mph gusts as an advancing cold front mixed it up with a furious south wind. I saw a squall line that must have stretched for over a hundred miles before the thunderstorms went by. The wind blew everything all to hell: sent the [...]
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Man, I can’t get enough of this stuff. Something in me has always been fascinated with the place where solid and vapor meet. (Watching smoke in a sunny room is pretty groovy, too.) It has to do with how the atmosphere flows, I guess, and the revelatory aspect of the invisible made visible. The image [...]
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It is an astonishingly beautiful day today in northern New Mexico,especially right here in Llano Quemado, on the south side of Taos. Fall has arrived: the cottonwoods are starting to turn yellow, and the chamisa is blooming. There’s a stiff wind out of the east, creating strong updrafts along the edge of the mesa, where [...]
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The rest of the country really has no idea. I wouldn’t have had, either, if not for being naturally reckless on occasion. This last weekend, however, I had guides and 4WDs to smooth (?) the way. What I did was hook up with an informal geology field trip, and we went back where hardly anyone [...]
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Every bathtub needs a window. Like with the adobe cottage we rented for a while in San Cristobal, the bathroom in this old adobe has a smallish window high up on the wall beside the tub. When I stand up to take a shower, I can look out to see sunshine and mountains, or feel [...]
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Today’s blessed relief comes from Hecate, whose “Discussing the Undiscussible” post goes directly to my own concerns of late: Mystical experience, the experience of the mystic, what it is that mystics experience — that stuff is, almost by definition, idiomatic. It cannot be translated into any standard language, although it is possible that the language [...]
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I forgot to get this posted a couple of weeks ago — gee, I wonder why? — but here it is. Regular readers of this blog will recognize elements of previous blog posts assembled into a new whole. Not quite like building Dr. Frankenstein’s monster, although related, and with much better results. This was just [...]
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In a very real sense, absolutely! Today is my “actual” birthday (from AstroDienst), with the sun lining up precisely with where it was when I was born in 1945 (!) at 9:25 p.m. tonight, rather than tomorrow, my calendar birthday. This has to do with the imprecision of the numbers, things slipping, the impossibility of [...]
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