Posted in Authors, Culture, On the Road, Photography, Place, Spirituality, Structure, Taos, Writers, Writing, tagged Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence Ranch, Dorothy Brett, Dorothy Brett's Blue Chair, Kiowa Ranch, Mabel Dodge Luhan, New Mexico on March 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There were many chairs holding the ground at Kiowa Ranch in the 1920’s. This one was Dorothy Brett’s. It is smaller than the Giant’s. But has a sturdy seat. Strong foundation.
At the round table, she typed Lawrence’s manuscripts for St. Mawr and The Woman Who Rode Away (based on Mabel Dodge Luhan) on a typewriter [...]
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Something about movies I watched when I was 13, 14, 15 years old. They left an impression on me that no other films seem to have done since.
There was Jaws. I remember sitting in the dark theater, my feet up on the back of the seat in front of me. When the great white shark [...]
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Posted in Animals & Critters, Art, Bones, Books, Personal, Place, Practice, Quotes, Silence, Spirituality, Structure, Taos, Writers, Writing, tagged Beginner's Mind, Caffe Tazza, compassion, just sitting, loneliness, Natalie Goldberg, New Mexico, Silence, Taos, the black dog, Writing Down The Bones, Zen on March 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
My visceral response to your sketch of Dirty Dog and Retro Wallpaper is black dog - the Black Dog of loneliness. Late at night in Taos, the silence would waken me. But it wasn’t silence; it was the dogs of Taos barking in the distance. Dogs have always scared me. And when we walk Morada [...]
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Posted in Art, Authors, Memoir, Photography, Place, Recovery, Silence, Taos, Writers, Writing on March 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Lawrence’s Firebird, February 8th, 2007
I remember the chair.
And you there sketching on the porch. The day was clear, my 2 year anniversary date, and you could hear the wind through the Ponderosa pines. Water dripped off of corrugated tin roofs. And we walked up the hill to the memorial in silence.
Remember last October? When we [...]
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