Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
Tonight I decided it was time to go to a photography meetup group activity here in town. The timing seemed right because I had been a “member” of this particular group for over a year, which involved me watching posts about member events on the meetup site for a year and never attending anything....
Read more →We don’t know why, when the world is lost in shadows, there is a light that will remain… Written in 1987, Montana Sky was the band’s response to member Gordon Kennedy’s sister-in-law taking her own life, offering a message that God is always trustworthy and loving, even in times when things make no sense....
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Tonight after work I decided to head back down to Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge to check in on the birds. I knew the Cubs game played this evening was blacked out locally, so I couldn’t go home and watch it. And I also didn’t feel much like going home to sit around....
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I always liked this song from Corey Hart- a song released in 1985, when I was a junior in high school. I don’t know that I ever actually read or heard the words so that I knew what he was singing about. Corey was just cool in his leather jacket with the popped collar...
Read more →I. There are days that the silence is loud, that I see vague faces and mouths move, but the gulf is too wide for the words to cross it, and whatever is human is continents away, and I dog-paddle in an open sea of disconnection and meaninglessness. I’ve heard of love as a wonderful...
Read more →This week, I received a film from Netflix that I had expected to see in the theater last year. I had seen trailers for the film last spring, and earmarked it in my mind as a must see when it came out on the big screen, if, for anything, for its extensive use of...
Read more →After a long layoff, I spent a little time today trying to collect a few more facts about life in Colonial New Mexico. One of the source books I have enjoyed is “Bolton and the Spanish Borderlands”, which is a collection of writings by Herbert Bolton, an American historian from the early twentieth century...
Read more →Before us, the traffic light is red, so this morning I slow down with the cluster of cars ahead of me and stop on the hill at Lead and Second, a little away from the intersection, after going over the bridge over the rail yard tracks. A sedan pulls up beside me with muted...
Read more →With mom out of town tonight, Dad and I went to dinner at Dion’s, a local pizza joint, and I enjoyed gleaning a few more nuggets from him about his past. He was the middle of three kids, which has been noted before, but I learned tonight that birth symmetry is a Welton attribute....
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My sister’s family was invited by close friends to camp overnight at Chaco on a group site. Did I want to join them? Sure. Friday afternoon we drove out 550 from Albuquerque and on into Chaco Canyon and Gallo Campgrounds. We ate hot dogs and everyone socialized. We went to bed late, and Kristi,...
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“I See The Light”, by Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi, from the movie “Tangled”. I never saw the film, but I stumbled across this video a few weeks ago, and I’ve had to come back and listen to this again over and over. I love both Mandy and Zach’s voices single. And this song...
Read more →Waking to a late April morning that felt more like it was winter than like spring, it was a morning suited for staying in pajamas and reading. Having covered much of the New Mexico and early Comanche history I hoped to in the Gwynne book “Empire of the Summer Moon”, I read another 30...
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NOTE: This is a “shaping story” that I will probably update a few times as new flight details come to light. It was going to be a typical day for two exceptional women. One, that morning, was completing a short business trip in New York, and was happy to be heading home to Albuquerque...
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Last weekend, my parents and I took a wonderful morning ride that rolled over into a full day trip, bringing us from Albuquerque to Jemez Pueblo, and then from there on up to Soda Dam, and then a drive through and stop at various points in and around the Valles Caldera National Park. Hungry...
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I planned to spend the evening reading and researching more in the Anza story, but like most evenings, after I came home from work, I did little productive for two hours. I picked up two books I thought it might be good to peruse for insights, but I gave up on both of them...
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I’m not writing as much as I’d like to, certainly. Life right now feels like a season of wandering, within and without. But at least I am trying to read some more again. Returning from the Arizona trip, though, my interest in the Anza project has returned, although I find myself frequently wondering why...
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