Update

My posts have been few and far between lately, and this one will just be a brief update as I have myself spread pretty thin these days. That’s a good thing, though, as it’s an indicator of a lot of progress on multiple fronts – business, music, social.
The house in Parks is sold and I’m [...]

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Moonlight on High Country Snows and Rain in the Desert

As I drove across Garland Prairie last week, the light of a full moon illumined the snow and the pines, casting deep shadows across the frozen ground. It was a beautiful and a bittersweet sight. The song of a great horned owl greeted me as I got out of my car and crunched through the [...]

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Except You Become as Little Children

I now have some small taste of what it is like to be a celebrity. Yesterday afternoon I got mobbed at the pet store…
I’d better get used to having enthusiastic “munchkins” jumping up and down and hanging onto my legs, for when I walked into the Flagstaff Petland yesterday to drop off some CDs [...]

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So Much Stuff

The logic of an arsonist suddenly makes a whole lot more sense to me after several days of packing up to move, especially since I have been plagued by a cold for the whole duration. I’m tired and cranky. How could one person accumulate so many possessions – so much JUNK – in [...]

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Auspicious Signs

The New Year is starting off with a bang! While my packing up the place in Parks is going slower than planned due to the fact that I have a cold, I may already have a buyer. I also got a confirmation call this afternoon for a gig playing at an attorney’s conference in [...]

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Star Light, Star Bright

One thing I miss about the Arizona high country is the dark night skies.  I’ve been back up in Parks for two days to do some more work on the place and I went out tonight to look at the sky.  The stars were breathtakingly bright in the cold, clear air at 7,000 feet. While [...]

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My Mission in Life

One thing about writing about personal things in a public forum – sooner or later you will have to retract something you’ve said, apologize, or otherwise eat crow…
I need to correct something I said in my last post. I did believe it was true at the time, and the realization was quite freeing, but it [...]

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Jump. Fall. Fly. Again.

The metaphor of skydiving that I used in my original “Jump. Fall. Fly.” post of a few months ago has taken on new meaning. I’ve been hanging onto the edge of the jump door resisting this one for a while now, but the time has come to let go and take the dive. This bird [...]

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Chilling Out in the High Country

Fall is just around the corner in the Arizona high country. The nighttime low was 42 degrees Farenheit last night and this is the first morning since spring that I’ve had to go back in the house and get a jacket for my morning sojourn out on the deck.
There were blue jays hopping about in [...]

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Week in Review – August 11, 2007

It’s been a busy week… The monsoons have eased up a bit and there were several days of sunshine when I could get out and work in the yard and on vehicles, which was great. If the weather is good tomorrow, I’ll start mowing. The rains have greened everything up and the weeds are growing [...]

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Owl Song

Last night I listened in on nature making music. It was about 1 o’clock in the morning and I’d just gone to bed when I heard a Great Horned Owl softly “Whooing” in the large ponderosa pine outside my bedroom window.
The forest had a bluish cast from the light of the full moon. Dark [...]

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Surveying the Terrain

Early this morning, it hit me what a great metaphor surveying is for this process I’m in the midst of. Run the gun, set the backsight, use repetition shots for error correction, locate the foresight, focus, shoot it, record it – I’m surveying the terrain of my life over the last forty some years [...]

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Stunned

I keep making oblique references to a “web of circumstance and connection” that, to me, is a powerful metaphor for the course and conduct of our lives. I’m definitely going to go a little further “out on a strand” in this post. For many years, and long before the advent of the Internet, I’ve worked [...]

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Just Add Arrogance…

An undisturbed pool of gasoline, like ignorance, sits and placidly gives off fumes; it isn’t until a source of ignition is introduced that it transforms into an inferno.
What an unhappy state of affairs exists in my old fire department! I am deeply saddened by it, but I can’t say that I am surprised. The gasoline [...]

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Wanted: Waiver Form for Artistic License

I was feeling a little guilty this afternoon. I realized that I’ve been very liberally using friends and family as foils in these posts (Signed releases, anyone? Waivers for artistic license?) and I’ve been having an ethical wrangle with myself as a result. Maybe this is one of the reasons friends and family hold back [...]

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