It is soooo pretty here. A photo tends to even look artistic with a darn telephone pole in the middle of it! There is something about those clouds, the light. There are roses everywhere and I have heard that some of them are heirloom. Everywhere I walk I can smell lovely things growing!
A lot of my writing has to do with sense-of-place and I am realizing that Santa Fe is such a fitting environment for me to get a greater perspective on that. I have learned that on the rare occasion that they build something new here, when they start digging up the foundation, the local archeologists must be present as artifacts are often found. Not only 100's of years of civilization has made this area their home, but 10's of thousands of years. They might find a skeleton buried within the walls of an old adobe while renovating or a pot of ancient seeds within a new foundation! I love that I can ride my bike around and something like this ancient church suddenly appears!By fate, I found in my casita a cool book called House as a Mirror of Self. This book has given me interesting further insight. It talks of Carl Jung's building of his precious Bollingen Tower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollingen_Tower) a "concretization of the psyche," in that he was drawn to represent his thoughts and knowledge through something material - "a symbol of psychic wholeness." I suppose that is a bit of what I am doing too...
When I write I use a myriad of resources - got out some Walt Whitman, Einstein and then my Vogue for a little brain breather...And I have been writing a lot and found a "skeleton" for the flow of putting things together, thus I am even able to lable chapters, which is really helpful for tracking my progress. I am finding in my exploration of place and home, that my dear city is a big center of my reflection and sentimentality. It has changed so much and I am enjoying the documentation process of realizing how different places and times had their place in constructing me. Did you know our current governor was my boss as I worked in the very first days of the Wynkoop Brewing Company? That place was so revolutionary in building the Denver (as well as the craft-brew industry) that is the fun place it is today...
I have also had time to paint, yay!
To get myself a bit more social, I went on a fabulous restaurant tour with the Santa Fe School of Cooking - experienced some yummy food and met people from all over the US.
A shot of my "writing den". It's been just right for hunkering down and doing this, yet within walking distance of so many inspiring places!
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