Quilt show in TorC this weekend
A Gathering of Quilts show takes place this weekend at the Ralph Edwards Civic Center.
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Damsite Historic District thanks you
To say the day was a huge success is the epitome of understatement.
Safety glass
We often gaze at life through a filter, a window. What we see and experience from either inside or out varies and most often colors how we perceive. When you step outside, reality is a ready embrace
Stuff you need to know, 2.16.23
Today's intelligence: According to a special report by Searchlight New Mexico, Truth or Consequences's last best hope to avoid a water infrastructure meltdown is an infusion of cash drawn from the pools of discretionary monies that the governor and state legislators can use to fund high-priority projects.
water & ice
A dreadful hike takes us to fairyland.
Enjoy!
Stuff you need to know, 2.15.23
Today's intelligence: Though a court decision on a deal that could end the fight over Rio Grande water distribution between New Mexico and Texas is months away, state officials recognize the need to spend millions to cut groundwater pumping below Elephant Butte. Plus: Proposed changes to the nomination and qualifications of state Game Commissioners move ahead at the Roundhouse.
Stuff you need to know, 2.13.23
Today's intelligence: why New Mexicans typically wait months to see a doctor, travel out of state to find one or use hospital emergency rooms for non-urgent medical needs
Stuff you need to know, 2.10.23
Today's intelligence: heighten awareness and precautions after rabies incident in Sierra County
Assaying Entropy XIII: Inconclusion
I return to the idea of entropy, this time as a measure of the increasing randomness in the universe, and I relate this increase to our gradual loss of social cohesion under the influence of individualism, to the breakdown of language in our culture, and to our carelessness about Covid.
Icy creek
During cold weather I love to walk along creeks to catch images of the infinite variations of the way water freezes.
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Stuff you need to know, 2.7.23
Today's intelligence: the arguments for and against the proposed settlement of the years-long Texas-New Mexico water dispute; and the financial and technical woes of Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic's similarly troubled corporate sibling
Assaying Entropy XII: Individualism, choice, and hierarchy
I continue my look at the sources of our present cultural impasse by examining in detail the incompatibility between an egalitarian democracy and individualism by examining the notions of rights and choice and how non-democratic hierarchies promote individualism.