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the winds are blowing.
I just learned that one of my poetry professors, Jim Simmerman, took his own life a few weeks ago.
Jim, as he insisted we call him, was the poetry mentor who introduced me to new ideas of what poetry was and could be. When I told him, "I love to write but I just don't think I'm a poet," he told me, "Yes you are. Just keep writing."
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old and new
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13,000 feet cruising between Arizona and New Mexico, mountains below cleaved open like a ribcage, all sounds lost in the rushing roar of her engines and I remember how traveling ruined my Care Bear perception of clouds. As a kid, the illusion dissolved into vaporous patches of light and refraction. The clouds became a whole new world, ( Read more... ) -
Why I like living here.
Cities across America have just taken an historic step in addressing the issue of global warming. The US Conference of Mayors has made a commitment to reduce global warming pollution from buildings in order to protect the world for future generations.
On Monday, June 5, 2006, the US Conference of Mayors adopted the "2030 Challenge" (Resolution ( Read more... ) -
Veiled.
Lately it has been everything and nothing. Life is one cacophonous melody where wheels crunching over dirt roads is country-love-song, the one that ends with some cheesy line about broken hearts. Mostly, there is silence. I can't decide if this is a good or a bad thing. Still, I spent a good portion of the holiday with my fingers tangled up in ( Read more... ) -
Here we go...
Santa Fe County ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Her voice is an angel choir, sparkling shattered glass, women dancing on table tops in ( Read more... ) -
what it is.
I've been jealously hoarding my words in spiral bound notebooks lately. There are times when it's okay for me to feel exposed; right now I'm locked up in turmoil so I feel it's best to keep things under the bed. I've been thinking a lot. Thinking about words, one at a time. Crawling up inside and figuring out where and with whom they hang on a ( Read more... ) -
Dance par-tay
Thursday night, while I was out dancing to my beloved band, Nosotros (http://nosotrosmusic.net), I was approached by a woman who was marketing the dance competition for the Santa Fe Rape Crisis Treatment Center benefit. I was already planning on attending the event for work. This woman ( Read more... ) -
Tripped out
Scientists and musicians (and people who like crazy weird stuff)... if you really want your head to spin, check this out ( Read more... )
