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Recently it has begun to feel a lot like waking after a long winter. No more sitting idly by, licking my wounds, going within and purging the old. No, now it's time to come out of my self-created shell and embrace the world once more. I have now entered a new phase of my… Continue

I thoroughly enjoyed my time spent in the bosque yesterday. I sat by the irrigation canal for a bit, watching the mallards...

Then I walked across the bosque, where I came across a couple of roadrunners. This one was running up a tree, something I've never seen before!… Continue

I went down to The Beach yesterday afternoon, just to enjoy the peace the water brings me. It was fairly quiet at that time of day, only a few fishermen casting their lines - and they're a quiet lot. I sat and watched the ducks. Only saw white ducks yesterday, and one lone geese that kept circling overhead.
As I sat sketching a curvy cottonwood tree, I realized once again that Life is Art. How gorgeous the duck fluffing its feathers and ducking beneath the water, or its brother, resting in the s… Continue

Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life?
This is like a Zen koan for me.

I find myself missing the waters of my youth.
Walking across the creek on the slippery, moss-covered rocks.
Sitting by one of the lakes, in the woods behind our house, watching the fish jump.
Walking in the woods, discovering plant species, and learning of their uses from my grandmother.
Sitting on a big stone, overlooking the creek, my feet dangling in the ice cold water.
I spent my childhood learning to be as one… Continue

We have created a man-made world, in more than one respect. To begin with, we attempt to take what is freely given by Mother Earth and duplicate it in some polluting factory, so that we can charge for it. Then we begin bioengineering crops, or better yet, seeds for crops, destroying the natural strains of produce and polluting, and possibly altering the genetic makeup of the soil. So now a company "owns" the seeds, and the farmers must lease them, and not re-use them, or their by-product to grow… Continue