Brooding under the smoke from the Jemez Mountains today - the center of the cosmos, in my story anyway, I put on an amazing song by Iarla O’Lionnard, “Caoineadh Na dTrA- Mhuire”. This beautiful Irish lament gave me the gift of taking my mind away from its helpless fire-turning, and got me thinking about musical […]
This morning we woke up to the singing of a wild California bird - without knowing what in heck it was, I was taken back to moments of the same feeling, while camping out in Joshua Tree back in the ’90’s. The bird has a million different things to say, and they just keep coming. […]
Here’s a shot from near Tehachapi, CA. After a strangely cool, moist crossing of the Mojave, we arrived in Los Banos yesterday afternoon. We’re starting to know the way - signs like “Shinarump Road” shine their way through the layers of memory. We held a motel room practice which, although I couldn’t imagine anyone not […]