Saturday our lizards kept watch while across the world the missings continued manifesting as deaths

and Sunday, along with topping off the water, the topic that took up a lot of time was that our Turkey Creek neighbors are seeking permits for toxic waste processing, a 45,000 gallon water tank, and a cat sanctuary among other preposterous stuff. Throwing shit at the wall to confuse the planning

commission, wasting everybody’s time while waiting to see what sticks.

Meanwhile out west we had Gerlach waking up

to The Speed of the Earth on the powdery playa which soon became

days of dust [and later mud] but here

Monday was a trip to Gardner where medical massages were preceded by Suspicion

 

and followed by Linda’s former student, now tenured UNM, professor Welly Fletcher ,with whom we

shared two nonstop evenings and a day of wide ranging conversations during which I toured

the entropics

 

on my way to the Casa Mesa site

 

to meet up and Ponder [yet again] the Mystery.  The talk went on – the demise of CCA, 40,000 year old sculptures, the perils of trying to reach closed-minded PC students, travels, travails and joys –

we even spent some time up in my studio, Welly a perceptive looker, but mostly

I listened, did as is my wont the dishes, and a good time was had by all…Thursday she returned

to Albuquerque and I made my way to La Clinica for acupuncture,

checked the mail [nothin’] and

went home to lunch and not much else…out on the east porch again for dinner was all,

notwithstanding more to come…