Grover explains how to solve the Colorado River’s problems
Grover’s talking here about raisins, but I think it generalizes.
Archive of posts filed under the mind category.
Test
Just testing out a new plugin. Nothing to see here, move along.
At Costco, piles of Piketty
The Four Corners is a complicated place
The Four Corners is a very big, very arid, and very complicated place.
Someone built this a long time ago
Back from Mesa Verde and filing my pictures, there is this: More impressive to me, in some ways, than the big stuff. Eight centuries ago, some people went to a lot of trouble to climb up to that upper alcove and build a little wall. Maybe they built more. I don’t know.
Aztec Motel
In Albuquerque, we frequently tear down our old Route 66 motels, but keep their signs:
CLEAN ARGE R OO MS
The Desert Sun Motel is frozen at $19.95 a night (and up): CLEAN ARGE R OO MS $19/95& UP FREE COF EE CABLE TV HBO ESP VACANCY It looks like a project stalled in mid-renovation, though it’s hard to see how this could have ended well if the owners had continued to spend money. It’s …
Big Foot and the Two Grey Hills Rug
tl;dr Lissa and I met a man today who saw Big Foot in the foothills of the Chuska Mountains on the Navajo Nation west of Newcomb, New Mexico. He could neither hear nor speak, but we have no reason to doubt his story. Lissa misplaced her purse, which was easily found, and we bought a …
Ghost ship in the blue haze
I was a little kid when I first saw Shiprock, the great volcanic neck on the northeastern edge of Navajo country, and I’ve been staring at it from all conceivable angles, in fascination, ever since. Most days you can see it through the distant haze from Mesa Verde, the plateau to the north, but …
Water in the desert: Sybil’s fountain
Our friend Sybil has a particularly nice backyard fountain.