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 neighbors on Turkey Creek are seeking permits for toxic waste processing, a 45,000 gallon water tank, helipad, employee housing, wellness building, agritourism “glamping” [between the anaerobic digester and the cat sanctuary???] and countless other things

all wildly unsuitable for their location. 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 Burning Man 2026, our neighbor Dave’s*

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 , who had great rapport with Sumi and Cosmos and 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 students, travels, travails

and joys – we even spent some time up in my studio, Welly perceptively looking, 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…

*Actually a collaborative effort between Kevin Kelly, David Rumsey, Seth and Sonny Roché and Dean Putney.