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Week 05-26 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa How are we already at the end of January already? It's crazy. This month has been a mix of cozy and productive. I'm deep into the editing of Almanac of Wonder and Wander #2, and have been keeping up with the 30

Nix/86 - Days 16-18 - Graphic Novel/Zine

ALT TEXT - DAY 16 Finally, a few steps again. Just enough to get up and moving again - one day at a time. I managed to get a blog post done for the first time in ages - really need to get into a better habit of writing for

Week 04-26 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa It's been a busy week. I have finally released my first ebook - The Almanac of Wonder and Wander Vol. 1 2021 - out into the world (see below for details). I'm still editing a print version. I've been able

Nix/86 - Days 13-15 - Graphic Novel/Zine

ALT TEXT - DAY 13 0 - Day 13 - Day KP was up and out early to Santa Fe to pick up the truck and a dozen Whoo's Donuts. Had coffee and 2 donuts when she returned. Best cake donut I've eaten in years. A

The Almanac of Wonder and Wander Vol. 1 - 2021 - Book

The Almanac of Wonder and Wander Vol. 1 - 2021 I'm excited to share my first book offering which I wrote in 2021. The first volume of the Almanac of Wonder and Wander chronicles in both informal haiku and haibuno form (picture, haiku, prose) my transition from Portland,

Week 03-26 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa I've noticed a huge upswing in content scraping by bots - particularly from China. From what I've researched it looks like this scraping stealing is done to suck content into LLMs (AI). So i've moved all my creative content behind

Nix/86 - Days 10-12 - Graphic Novel/Zine

ALT TEXT - DAY 10 0, (yep, another zero day) Woke up from a complete crap of a night of non-sleep. Tossing and turning in pain all night. The morning - the day- no better. Pain! So no walking today and that's okay. My truck is in the

Week 02-26 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa The first full week of 2026 is here, and so far it's full of creativity and small changes, and a community of determined creatives having fun. The super wolf moon greeted us into the new year - full, bright, dominating. News was grim -

Nix/86 - Days 7-9 - Graphic Novel/Zine

ALT TEXT DAY 7 Sunday Another Zero Day Feeling residual achy from weather that rolled in yesterday Stiffness is bad. Sleep was ok. Tomorrow is another day. Trying not to get too frustrated with the slowness of this all. It was a slow Sunday, took a bath, cleaned the cat

Week 01-26 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa Stepping into the new year, one slow step at a time. So very slow. I'll be working through 8 projects this year - I've made no resolutions, only getting projects completed. We made it to midnight on NYE and then started out

Week 52-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa We are enjoying the last two slow weeks of 2025. On Monday took a day trip to Bandelier National Monument next to Los Alamos. It was a beautiful and ridiculously warm day - 65. Bought a new parks pass to avoid the 2026 Washington/Dump card,

Nix/86 - Days 4 - 6 - Graphic Novel/Zine

ALT TEXT - Day 4 A box with "6 Steps" written inside of it. Back on the walker this morning despite some bad pain. I managed to stand and take a couple more steps than previous days, but the going is so slow. This pain is keeping me

Week 51-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa We are rolling into the last couple weeks of 2025, wrapping up business, and gearing up for the holiday cozy. Keeping it simple this year with an annual viewing of Christmas Vacation, and adding in a Christmas horror movie, dip-palooza, and mulled "wine" (juice

Week 50-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa We had our first "major" snowfall - 4" - and it was beautiful. It was cold cold cold for a few days after so the snow has lasted longer than it usually does. The wood stove has been pumping out the cozy nearly

Nix/86 - Days 1 - 3 - Graphic Novel/Zine

Nix/86 is an autobiographical novel/zine/comic that I am working on during the last 86 days of 2025 about struggles to get more mobile. The pages are drawn in ballpoint pen and colored with Procreate after scanning. Alt Text - Day 1 (left side of page) Nix/86

Week 47-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa This past week we were greeted with another awesome night of aurora/northern lights courtesy of a X5.1 solar flare. The reds danced across the northern night sky, while a green glow as bright as a cities light pollution hugged the horizon. It was WOW!

Week 42-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa This past weekend an estimated 7 million people demonstrated against the increasingly puerile US administration. The administration answered by shit-posting AI slop. The joke show clown circus continues. I am generally disgusted, but inspired by the fact that people are starting to wake up. Fall has

Week 39-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa And just like that another summer is over. And suddenly a greater roadrunner has been running around the property. Out of range, but a lifer for me! Speaking of birds check out the free ad-free doc on Youtube called Listers. It's about two brothers

Week 32-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa We are deep in monsoon season and zucchini. The hummingbirds have started their migration and our feeders are loaded, we've never seen so many birds at once. Lots of Rufous hummers which is good news! We've been under a heat dome and

Week 30-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa What week are we on? Summer is here, the garden is popping veg at an astronomical rate due to the abundant monsoon moisture we've been receiving. We had some handymen come out and finish the insulation and install wallboards in the movement studio. KP

Week 20-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa Time keeps on ticking. Ticking. Ticking. Into the future... We are just off back to back visits from family which was really nice. Garden season is in full swing - starts have been potted up, and the species Tulips are blooming. Yesterday the first Mockingbird arrived

Week 15-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa Wow, 7 weeks since the last update, A LOT has happened. I think winter is fully over and we have gone straight to summer - 80 yesterday, creeping in the upper 70s today. Our taxes are done, and the hummer feeders are up. Hummer migration is

Week 08-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa We set out for a mini adventure to southern Colorado to cross the Rio Grande at the one-lane historic Los Lobatos bridge in S. San Luis Valley. We arrived at the bridge to find a bald eagle fishing (successfully). The bridge is 'out there'

Week 05-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa Wow, America is devolving more rapidly than I ever even expected. Checks and balances have gone the way of the Dodo. Wheee! Meanwhile we are carrying on. Winter is gone again, and we are delighting in some 60+ degree weather. Bring out the shorts! Curiosities of

Week 04-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa Well here we are in a new dystopian reality. Buckle up. In other news we have been waiting to get a wood stove insert installed in the fireplace. That happened. It's wonderfully cozy and toasty. It's been a slow January so far,

Week 02-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa Winter has finally returned and with it some seriously cold nights. The fireplace is scheduled for a glow-up next week in the form of a new wood stove insert. I'm looking forward to some cozy nights around a fire again. How's your

Week 01-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa Finally back into the groove of the blog thang after taking a bit of an unexpected break the second half of 2024. I don't have any overarching goals for 2025 - let's see what kind of ride it takes us on for

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Week 38-24 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa It's finally happened, we are un-stalled. It feels transformative. Things are moving forward again. And more. The garden is go-grow-going big time, a complete 180 from last year. There is at least one resident gopher snake, possibly two, that have been taking care of

Week 19-24 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa This was the week of not moving forward again because the "rules" keep changing. While we missed the best day of aurora viewing because of clouds, I think we managed to see them on Saturday night (at least through the phone cam). It has

Week 18-24 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa We've been enjoying warm mornings drinking coffee on the front patio watching the hummers and all the other birds do their spring dance. Flop tan on my feet is for real. Finally some things are progressing, albeit slowly (of course). April winds have been

Week 17-24 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa This spring has been wonderful - warm for the most part, not too windy, and not too dusty. Lovely, i'll take it. Regular moisture is setting us up for a hopefully productive garden season. Our outside overwintering plants are coming back in full force:

Week 14-24 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa Winter is lingering. Moods are improving. We've soaked and binge watched TV and built more shed stairs. Garlic, rhubarb, and horseradish are coming up in the garden. Inside we have onion starts and trays of fresh sprouts to eat under a grow light. The

Week 09-24 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa We had to say farewell to our beloved Squidgey Biscuit last Friday. It's been a rough week. We are all heartbroken. Curiosities of the Week F.T.C. Sues to Block Kroger-Albertsons Grocery Store Deal (NYT) The best news I've heard all

Week 07-24 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa It's been a week - or a little over a week now. Dealing with sick kitty, continued bureaucracy, some really fraked up news. It's agitated anxiety and grief non-stop. It'll all work itself out. But it's been a

Week 06-24 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa Happy Lunar New Year! We made dumplings - red bean paste, and chicken green chile. We don't have a yéye, or nǎinai to watch over our dumpling making so we did our best. And they were delicious. Still bogged down in bureaucratic crap, hopefully

Week 05-24 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa Winter has returned. The atmospheric rivers hitting the west coast are sending the moisture goods our way. Thankfully none of the snow is sticking (so far!). This week did not go as planned when an intense round of pain in the form of hamstring cramping took

Week 04-24 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa The week of tangled in bureaucracy. In better news with one day left in January I have successfully navigated my first month sans Amazon or Instagram. Don't miss a thing. Curiosities of the Week The Secret Language of Ships (Hakai Magazine) Signs and symbols

Week 03-24 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa We are alternating between clouds and sunshine so the animals take advantage of the solar gain whenever they can. This week was a bit of a catch-up work wise after last weeks well snafu. We finally got our dump card so we could take garbage in

Week 02-24 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa It's been a cold and snowy week on the mesa. In between storms we've been having some pretty spectacular sunsets. Our well was out from T-F so it felt like we were camping in the house. Thankfully it ended up being a

Week 01-24 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa Welcome back to the Curiosities newsletter. It's been a hot minute. Where did 2023 go? Happy to say byeeeee to a year of utter exhaustion. I'm ready to ignite 2024. Let's go! No resolutions here this year. No point... what

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Week 31-23 - Curiosities

🗞️Greetings from The Mesa It's been ten weeks since the last Curiosities. Time flies... I didn't intend on taking a summer break from the site, but here we are. It's been a busy and hot summer. We've been stuck under the SW

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AI vs Human - Animation

AI vs Human - Animated Short 2:34 - 2023 "an abstract coffee stain outlined in black ink emulating a 0.5 Rotring Isograph" AI vs Human is an experimental animation that pits AI tools versus a human. For the past several months I’ve been researching AI

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Week 21-23 - Curiosities

Rest in Power Queen. I have been a huge Tina Turner fan for a very long time. I saw her perform once on her Twenty Four Seven tour on June 9, 2000 at the Fleet Center in Boston. She was 60 at the time, and danced up and down the

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Week 19-23 - Curiosities

🗞️Greetings from The Mesa It's been a gimpy past couple of weeks with some irritating and immobilizing bilateral ITBS. Starting to feel better, so I'm back to my regular posting schedule. Besides the lack of general mobility to get things done in a timely fashion, it&

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Week 17-23 - Curiosities

🗞️Greetings from The Mesa We are all garden all the time. We created a fenced in 24' x 18' outdoor area where we have a bunch of different beds. So far we have raspberry bed, blackberry bed, strawberry and rhubarb bed, a goji berry mound, and a horseradish

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Week 16-23 - Curiosities

🗞️Greetings from The Mesa We love coffee. We have started down a path to discover new coffees that we roast ourselves. There is a an economic and somewhat environmental twist to this story - we save money, we don't have to buy almond milk in large plastic jugs

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Week 15-23 - Curiosities

🗞️Greetings from The Mesa Winter will not stop. Over it. It does give me lots of time to art, write, and bake new things (check out the recipe at the bottom). Do you feel productive, or not so much, in Spring? 👉Curiosities 1. Your devices are listening. Your devices are

Week 14-23 - Curiosities

🗞️Greetings from The Mesa At the end of week 14, and beginning of Week 15 we did a whirlwind trip to Kansas City, MO to see one of my favorite musicians perform a show for a dear old friend. Combined with a frenetic race to get the greenhouse and garden

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Week 13-23 - Curiosities

🗞️News from the Mesa: Lift-driven ski season is coming to a close. I put in 14 days of morning laps, and ~241,081' vertical. The mountain opens to uphill traffic next week. I may try to do some 'earn your turns' days. We'll see how

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Week 12-23 - Curiosities

🗞️Greetings from The Mesa I received a newsletter from an artist I follow this week, and I loved the format, so I'm trying something new this week. I have a few more ideas for tweaks ahead in future newsletters. That being said, we are seeing some signs that

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Week 11-23 - Curiosities

This week on Hargie: Week 10-23 - Haibuno Week 11-23 - Photos This week elsewhere: 1. The art/importance of having a Practice. Two of my longest practices are keeping a journal of some form (currently on book #116 - mostly regularly since 1986), and having a web presence in

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