What is it REALLY like to live in New Mexico?

“IT WAS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, and the post office was full of Indians. Maybe it was like that every Friday, I didn’t know. But there they were, old women mostly, and many of them seemed not to have seen each other since the last time they checked their mail. I stood in line and waited forever. The holdup was an Anglo family of four getting passport photos and applications. (The Indians all had P.O. boxes and didn’t need to wait.) In front of me was a tall white man with short hair and a jeweled stud in his left earlobe, wearing a long black leather overcoat. The Pueblo women were five feet tall at most and moved around like a slow river. I felt like I was in another time.”

That’s the opening paragraph of my new book. TAOS SOUL: Love Stories, Heroes, and Wild Adventure (Kindle Edition, $2.99) is a collection of 62 individual stories about life in northern New Mexico, the terrible beauty of Taos, and my struggle to survive amidst extremes of weather, spirit, and the intense tri-cultural energy of el Norte. It also represents my very best work over the last few years.

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Sections and Chapter Titles:

Love Stories:

Motherly Love, Island, Grounding by Default, Tunnel, River of Soul, Killing the First Elk, Poor Old Hobbes, Busted Down in Babylon, The Devil on Kinney Road, All-America Bloodline Blues, Three Centimeters, Run to Ground, Parts I-IV, Barest Bones, Vivir Otra Vez, Twenty-Five Years, Scenes from Deep Marriage, Lying Eyes, Something Happened to Me

Heroes:

Compulsion, Jesus Water-skis in Waco, Joe Sent Me, Windshield, Nine-Year Itch, Natural Born Killer, Yells-At-Nothing, The Ashley Gets a Knob, Not Coming Home for Supper, My Amazing Thursday, Monday Night Manuel, The Tao of Plumbing, Woodpile Kensho, Angel Stampede, Saved by Salvage, or An Ode to Junk, Grasshoppers of Llano Quemado, Dimensional Shift, Bleeding Heart, Home Canyon Security, Child of God

Wild Adventure:

Message for the Fourth, Daring Death in Dixon, No Bugs in New Mexico, Thirty-Year Gale, Journey to the Land of Giants, Part I & II, Taos for Dummies, Spiders in the Fruit Bowl, Eating the God, The Spring, Invitation, Dowser Man, Life in Mudtime, God Game, Dead Landlord Jokes, They’ll Never Take Me Alive, Crucible, Johnny and the Horned Toads, Adobe Winter Lockdown, Swimming to Arcturus, Piñon Lift

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About the Author

John Hamilton Farr is the author of Taos Soul, Buffalo Lights, and dozens of columns for Horse Fly, a monthly Taos newspaper. He has published online relentlessly since 1997 and currently writes at 7,000 feet from Taos, New Mexico, U.S.A.

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