i'm starting to catch up on photographs - i've gotten as far as Donald's and my trip to Joshua Tree - check out some pics of Donald in action!

www.flickr.com/photos/gr00vy/

p.s. think we found a great rental down here - it has plenty of fertile soil and a huge garden area, a wood stove, a river (the Mimbres), a big deck, and a ridiculous view - bordering on nature conservancy land, so... no new neighbors either. we're going to stick around for a bit, because we can learn everything we want to learn down here and with fantastic people. i am going to get to do fun things like write, make art, sing harmonies in a band, grow food, chop wood and learn how to build things. also on the list for this year is mapping the constellations (um, there's quite a sky here, holy fuck), learning orienteering (with a compass, not a GPS) and taking a grant-writing class. it's all here, plus the isolation i need to get it all done.

sounds over the top? well, when i left new york i had a list like this, too - it involved learning how to shit in the woods and start a campfire, for example. check. nothing is impossible.

currently, too, we are without a back windshield due to a misplaced tree. we're looking around every scrap yard in the vicinity but it may be a couple of weeks... we kinda knew driving into this place we were going to get stuck here - so we took that windshield mishap as a sign. we're checking the scrap yards but now it's not so much a priority.

we're headed here this weekend for a gathering - blog.holyscraphotsprings.com/ - one of my fellow new york refugees and her partner are putting this together.

also - you can fly into albequerque and get a teeny plane to silver city, or you can fly to el paso and have us come get you. so, you know, come visit. we'll take you to an infinite amount of hot springs.