For the academic years between 2015-2017, I ended up president of the faculty senate, a job one gets by not knowing how to say “no” and...

“Manifesto: a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer. A public declaration of policy and...

I threw my attention at this beautiful cluster yesterday morning, the world silent except for the wind. Is it weird that sitting there in...

I found a new-to-me set of tracks in the desert. Perplexing, because the only possible match I can come up with is raccoon, but the...

On a walk I—or was it my dog—noticed that this little colony of rodent condos I’d previously observed had been taken over by something...

One afternoon a few days ago I went out into the yard to toss the frisbee for my dog Buddy. Amid the branches of the dormant chamisa,...

Welcome 2024 and a blast of fortifying cold winds and several inches of snow that has me attending more frequently to the wood stove...

I've been reading John Burroughs's essays in my effort to "learn to see" and though I've established a walking route and rhythm that...

About a week ago I invited people to join me in doing a "deep read" of some classic works in 2024. This follow-up post contains three...

My attention walk yesterday happened in the rain. I felt very alone. I didn't even see a crow. The rain droplets gathered on my lenses...

My project about paying attention and re-membering myself to this place (and to nature) flows from a hunger for more depth in my life in...

I am of the prairie grass people, the shortgrass prairie people: domesticated, cattle-nibbled, ploughed, propagated, mowed, shucked,...

Part of my interest in this project is to overcome the distinction between nature/the natural and the human (and, I suppose, the...

Fewer tracks and movement above ground these days it. As the season turns colder, torpor sets in and more creaturely activity appears to...

On my walk today, this question: what specific kind of yucca is this and what creature nibbled it down to this state? Day one, trying to...

Desert tracks: a loader, my dog, my shoe, and a track that has me perplexed--looks like five toe pads but missing the heel depression I'd...

I returned to ABQ's South Valley yesterday for the Marigold Procession and Celebration. In addition to honoring and remembering those...

On Sunday I went down to the South Valley for El Kookooee Se Quema. The high wind warnings pushed the event to tomorrow evening, Tuesday,...

Last Saturday I ran the Big Tesuque Trail Run put on by the Santa Fe Striders with a special fundraising emphasis this year for Wings of...

I see these beetles when I'm out walking in the desert. I think it's a Broad-necked Darkling Beetle, aka, stink bug, though surely every...