...closer to the ocean
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Blogging at Ocean in View. Resumé : My resumé is available. Working : through September, 2008, I am the Librarian for the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe in Port Angeles, Washington. |
Santa Fe Poetry Broadside
- Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, an electronic literary journal edited by the two Miriams (Miriam Sagan and Miriam Bobkoff). Now featuring Issue #55, September, 2008.
- Just Outside the Frame : Poets from the Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, Tres Chicas Books, 2005). Anthology from the first seven years of the Broadside. Larger view of the cover (hey, my name is on it).
- Counting Coup Press offered a contest, make a one-page writing on the subject of 'Things That Want To Be Counted'. Prize: to be printed as a Broadside. Thank you, Suzanne. After nine years of producing a Broadside, now I get to be one. (It comes in green and dark colorphases.)
Friends and Family
- The Other Miriam: Some poems by Miriam Sagan ; her hot diner article from the Albuquerque Journal, "Roadside Nostalgia : Nothing Could Be Finer Than to Find a Timely Diner"; Miriam Sagan's Website.
- Spiritual Coaching on the Middle Way; Wayne Codling
- The Digger Archives, Eric Noble's massive project.
- Arte Maya Tz'utuhil Museum and Gallery, from Joseph Johnston.
- Gage Academy of Fine Art; Gary Faigin.
- The Scott Street Commune (ca. 1972, missing several members) ; and, tip of the iceberg, an account of Scott Street's intercommunal newsletter, Kaliflower.
- My family in 1948 ; where I lived in 1967.
Buddhist Links / The Temple
This may appear to be a picture of the han in the courtyard of the temple on Cerro Gordo, but is in fact a portrait of four fledgling barnswallows. The photographer, my niece Pamela Dixon, was eleven at the time, and the swallows maybe four weeks old. They must have taken their first flight a day or so before they posed there on top on the han--after a few days they stop keeping so close together.
I was the resident monk and caretaker of the temple for seven years, though it was now a very long time ago.* Some summers we had as many as six barnswallow nests. They fly round and round the courtyard, circumambulating the stupa on the air. They would try hard to sneak into the front room and build a nest on the lamp in the kitchen, but I always headed them off in time. Three summers we also had Say's phoebes nesting on the teisho drum.
Formerly...
The Library
July 6th, 2007, was my last day at Santa Fe Public Library, where I had worked
for 22 years. I am now, happily, in Port Angeles, Washington — much closer to the ocean. I've found library work,
but I don't know that it will be a central part of my identity the way what I did at SFPL was. I
wasn't able to decide to banish those 22 years from this page. Yet.
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Expeditions
Ravens Ridge in the Summertime, a spring adventure in
Rio Santa Barbara, a day hike in the
Pecos Wilderness, a drive up the Rio
Chama, a hike up Cave Creek. There was going to be a Winsor
Trail hike here, but the photos in Cybermaze's
Baldy hike are much better than mine. I haven't made a new expedition page for a long time. These days, if I want to tell about places, I blog it.
Images of Earth
Earthimages: Northern New Mexico from Skylab4, Landsat, and
the Space Shuttle; current satellite imagery; and some personal favorites.
Postcards
The problem with email is you can't tuck any postcards into the envelope.
So here are some Postcards - Small Images of New Mexico. All made a very long
time ago, before digital cameras made it easy.
Electronic Text
- Link here for the one book which I personally helped produce and which actually made it to the Net: Louisa May Alcott's Flower Fables. (Work was also completed on Little Men, but something went wrong with the copyright permission process, and the text I worked on was never released by Project Gutenberg. Seven years later Little Men did get posted, and now they have a lot of other Alcott texts.
- A short poem by Thomas Hardy, "The Oxen". Now and then I look to see if anyone has put it out there yet, just because; so here it is.
- Online Texts are everywhere. Try these three sites: OnLine Texts (from IPL); Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts; The OnLine Books Page.
- The Bartleby Library from Columbia University includes a searchable Bartlett's!