High Road Artist

Working Artist on the High Road to Taos

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Centinela Traditional Arts, Part 1

I sat down to speak with Lisa Trujillo of Centinela Traditional Arts. As she walked me through her creative space and talked about her process, she explained that weaving was not handed down to her from her immediate family. Instead, Lisa married into a fiber arts heritage that goes back seven generations. She learned the […]

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Raymond Carver, 2

I have always appreciated the simplicity of Raymond Carver’s voice. This poem has spent lots of time on my refrigerator. Beloved And did you get what you wanted, from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

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Isabro Ortega, Master Carver

Isabro Ortega grew up very poor in the village of Truchas, New Mexico. He and his friend, Rudy, were inseparable. There was a boy in town who had lots of toys while Isabro and Rudy had none. The other boy had an electric train set, so Isabro and Rudy made their own out of sardine […]

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The Treasure

Alvaro Cardona-Hine is a treasure. There’s just no other way to put it. He was born in Costa Rica 84 years ago to a literary family, has published 18 books in Spanish and English, has composed works that have been performed by symphony orchestras and has painted masterworks that are collected all over the world. […]

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Gallery Hopping In Santa Fe 2

As promised, Anna (previous post The Old Adobe Church, the Wolf and Survival) and I headed down the mountain once again to take you on a short tour of Santa Fe galleries (see the first gallery tour in the previous post Gallery Hopping In Santa Fe). We started our day downtown at Evoke Contemporary because […]

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Rules For Being Human

A friend once worked as a guide for a wilderness program for troubled youth called Aspen Academy out of Loa, Utah. He brought this home from the field once and I thought it was so useful I’ve carried it around ever since. I hope you’ll find it instructive, too. Rules For Being Human 1. You […]

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What Makes Life Meaningful?

Fifteen years ago, today, I died (see previous posts My Story Begins, My Re-Birthday, The Night I Died: The Whole Story, Part 1 and The Night I Died, the Whole Story, Part 2). There are people who don’t understand why I would mark this day, let alone celebrate it, but March 8th forever changed my course. […]