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Field Notes at the Threshold
June 2026 place note on Field Notes at the Threshold, paired with Everything Has Beauty, tracing place, turn, and emotional record.
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I write what refuses silence
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Twenty-Six Years
The chamisa is still gray. The bosque along the acequia looks like charcoal drawings of itself. The mornings are cold enough that my coffee goes lukewarm before I finish it.
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The Serenity of Reflection
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Roaring Silhouettes: The Fire That Started It
I was near the Jemez Mountains the summer a wildfire moved through. I watched from distance as a hillside I'd hiked became something else entirely. And I kept thinking: something is happening here that isn't only destruction.
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Roaring Silhouettes
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Housesite for Tish & Dave in Cerrillos
In August 2025, I housesat for Tish & Dave in Cerrillos, wrote in the high desert, and found exactly the stillness that gave Echoes in the Desert Homestead room to arrive.
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Echoes in the Desert Homestead
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What a Brushstroke Knows That Words Don't
I spent a Saturday in June at a gallery in Santa Fe watching people look at paintings. Not the paintings themselves — the people looking at them.
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Brushstrokes of Emotions
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The Desert Taught Me to Shut Up
Santa Fe in February is quiet in a specific, instructive way. The tourists are gone. The sky is pewter and enormous. The mountains look serious. I moved here partly because I needed a place that would not accommodate noise.
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Dreams Unleashed
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What November Does
First week of November 2023, Belize: I am here with my great friend Monique and her sister, and we are having an incredible time. The sea air is warm, the light is golden, and every day feels open and alive.
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Forgiveness Unleashed