Taos

There once was a time in Maryland when living in the cold weather meant getting up early to turn the thermostat up. Oh right, most people have programmable thermostats. Well, this was some time back. At any rate, I was always cold! The pitiful heat emitted by the radiators in the last house we owned was no better than the forced air heat the blew in friends’ homes, leading me to invent the phrase, “the dank chill of centrally-heated houses.”

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See, it’s not all angst and primal bullshit with electrodes jabbed into your spinal cord. Sometimes you walk right into a moment that just works. It happened to me today in the local organic food emporium when I encountered a dangerous, wise-cracking personage of some repute whom I hadn’t seen in quite a while. He [...]

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This one could have been a keeper. The amenities of a suburban Taos horse property but authentic, chicken coop included, in a gracious setting I personally trust more than any Gringo Nation enclave. But all of this supposes something set on Planet Earth, not the alternative reality of Taos. The house itself is in an [...]

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Just a photo for the moment. There haven’t been many posts lately because I’ve been “busy” waiting for direction (which I think I just received)… so have a look at life in Miranda Canyon, a few miles south of Taos. (More verbiage below the image.) I took this from the top of my daily [snort] [...]

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Well, it finally learned how to rain again here in New Mexico. This is fine, except that means clouds and that means cold, and I’ll be damned if I’m ready to see it be winter again already. We hardly had a summer anyway. What there was of it, I had to devote to locking my [...]

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Don’t do this to me, world. As I sit here in my fleece bathrobe at 4:30 a.m., it may be time to mourn the passing of summer. It’s 45 °F outside, and this boy is thinking about building a (gasp!) fire. I couldn’t do that even if I wanted to, however. The wood stove is [...]

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