Tracking Life

East yard gate, video two

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:11:20 -0700

When I made this video, the thought occurred that i can make one long 8’ gate, and not cut any sections of the picket fence. Here i discuss moving the picket fence section closest to the house, and moving one post to allow a long gate to swing over the sidewalk. Now I am back to the two gate idea.

East yard gate, video one

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:11:19 -0700

I am designing a gate to open on the north side of the east yard fence, which will give the tenants Morgan and Catherine access from the north parking lot.
When I made this first video, I was looking at the picket fence sections and thinking about where to place the posts.
The plan was two posts on either side of the cement sidewalk, and two swinging gates meeting in the middle of the sidewalk.

Cranes and the Sandias

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 04:44:50 -0700

This photo is from the open space in the North Valley Albuquerque. The poem is from somewhere else recently...

Love is no dream
It is wakefulness itself

Minute attention to the mundane
ecstatic embrace of pain

steadier and deeper than the mere excitement of the senses
and the rolling waves of emotion

more like the love the Big Bang must have felt
before it exploded, unable to stand
this searing intensity of love folded in upon itself.

Deeper than chemistry
beyond nuclear energy

simple
losing self in the blooming flower of rowdy nowness

bringing Presence forth even as nothingness opens it's gaping maw
and threatens to devour us completely.

simple, being breathing by the bedside of a dying loved one,
who is poised to enter all of eternity alone.

What can I say?
Nothing,

Looking in the eyes of the Beloved,
the mind silenced by the urgency of the heart.

Mt Taylor to the west

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:12:59 -0700

As I began to walk towards my chosen destination, the piles of rocks on a ridge, I looked back over the city and saw Mt Taylor in the distance. Cactus and wild grasses, and I was on my way.

Setting a goal, and reaching it

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:54:53 -0700

Samhain is the Celtic New year, this is from a hike I took on November 1st. On the hill straight ahead I identified a rock to which I committed to reaching. What will change and what will stand in my way as I hike to the rock?
Here the trail seems clear enough, on a beautiful day, the first day of a new year. These are the foothills of the Sandia mountains, the higher peaks of which can be seen in the distance.