My mind seems like these two: Cowboy looking out the window in the morning and the Georgia O’Keeffe print hanging over my bed. Cowboy’s ears remind me of the Very Large Array, and I think he sees deep. O’Keeffe’s painting is far-seeing, too, its monoliths and movement called Road Past the View II.. Intent as …
My favorite discovery so far this rainy day is that Willie Nelson wrote and originally recorded “Crazy” for his 1962 debut album, “Crazy,” the song soon made more famous by Patsy Cline. Willie Nelson, 1962: Patsy Cline, 1962: I am a late learner, so please forgive me, those of you who have known …
This ship of state — this self-obsessed, rusting hulk of retired newspaperman — steadied the moment I felt the stillness of the coming autumn air. No pain this morning, only a sense of the gentle season ahead. I put out fresh water for scrub jays, finches, titmouses and Texas antelope squirrels, grateful that the rattlesnakes …
The little bit of Martha Stewart in me rose this morning like yeasty dough and grew into a couple of half-baked theories for practical living in New Mexico — namely cheap art and waterless landscaping. Actually, I was up earlier than usual to deal with a community well problem and the sunrise illuminated my habitat. …
Chamber music concert Sunday afternoon cleared cancer at least briefly from my thoughts. Turned out it was a celebration of my recent retirement from newspapering, too. I first realized my retirement and its pleasures a couple of weeks ago when I looked up through my living room window to watch clouds rolling in over the …
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