8/9/11
My reading was the first of the series this evening. I read the entire last chapter of STAND THE STORM. It was well received. I hadn't looked at this material in quite a whie. It felt gratifying to have a positive feedback on it.
Coyotes and blackbirds - 8/10/11
howled furiously for several minutes this morning @6:15a. It was a piercing sound -- like the wail of ambulances -- calling and answering for several minutes. I couldn't see them or get my video camera set in time.
9:00a -- there are two large black birds who are cussing and cawing back and forth -- also seemingly in a fury. They are loud and relentless - perched in a tree side by side. Finally they fly away together.
9:56a -- a hay baler is pulled along the rows of mown hay and producing neat bales of the stuff.
10:30a -- we heard a wonderful keynote address by the incomparable Marilynne Robinson. She spoke in a quietly ferocious, wry manner. She exhorted us to respect and appreciate our minds and write from this place. She spoke to the troubling ideas about inadequacy in contemporary culture and suggested that we resist this at all cost. "Art pushes back."
In New Mexico the sun is the thing -- when it is up full, the heat blisters you. when clouds cover over a breeze is felt. when the sun is down the dark is total -- complete. but there is little fear in this total dark except to step on something that will bite. The moon is up high and bright and the stars are visible if clouds don't interfere. They are interfering tonight.
There are unaccustomed "things" here abouts. Snakes are known and flashlights are suggested for night walks. Lizards dart around and we are told to keep doors closed after dark so that these fellows don't come inside.
There are many more readings this evening -- under the full moon.
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