The Tourist Attitude

We outdoorsy types are constantly casting judgements on our wilderness experiences. What if we were to cut it out and simply accept the world as it is?

The Swell

The Colorado Plateau Physiographic Province is full of contradictory features. How do we winnow the exceptions from the rules?

Revolutions

The Earth, and Bosque Farms with it, has completed another orbit.

Back Home: Gallup, New Mexico

There’s nothing like a pilgrimage home — even if you’ve made the trip a thousand times.

Living Crystals, Part 2

Is subjective delight justification enough for making a metaphorical connection between the disparate realms of botany and minerology? Or must there be some instrumental value?

Living Crystals

Post-Gila journal extract: A meditation on the similarities between plants and crystals.

Caving In The Guadalupes, Part 2: Hallowed Ground

There’s a radical transformation that takes place for those who descend into the caves of southeast New Mexico’s Guadalupe Mountains — as if the world were changing before your very eyes.

Fences

Fences are everywhere, but have you ever taken the time to consider what a fence is, and what sort of enterprise fence-building is?

Steering The Universe

Thoughts on omnipotence inspired by the routine agricultural chore of fruit tree pruning.

Chalked Up

Virtually every climber uses chalk to improve friction. Unfortunately, few are willing to clean up after themselves.

Farther Still

A map of one hominid's journey through Deep Time

Meditations