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Box Canyon #1: Karen Kerschen
The Santa Fe Women’s Hiking Group ventured up Box Canyon at Ghost Ranch Saturday November 6 for a Trail Writer’s Hike on the theme of Poems at Your Feet. I facilitated their engagement with the extraordinary red rolling hills and … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, desert, details, hiking, nature, New Mexico, Trail Writer's Guide, walking, wilderness, writing
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“To bear witness is not a passive act”
I just read an article by Terry Tempest Williams about the Gulf Coast in Orion. The disaster is not over. The devastation to humans and nonhumans is nearly apocalyptic. The heartbreak is beyond anything I have experienced, except in fiction … Continue reading
Exercise as writing practice
Last week I attended the first salon of the Albuquerque Writers Coop sponsored by Lisa Lenard Cook and Lynn Miller. The four panelists talked about their busy writing lives that include journal editorial work, columns, and personal writing–both fiction and … Continue reading
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Two Nature Boys
Today I met Travis and Bowen, two lucky boys (+/- 10 years old) traveling around the country with their parents. They’re on there way to the Grand Canyon for a raft trip. Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, character, hiking, nature, New Mexico, writing
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Odetta and Jesse Loved Hamilton Mesa
I hiked with my dogs, Odetta and Jesse, on a 12-mile loop across Hamilton Mesa east of the Pecos River today. The dogs proudly carried their own food and water in red canine backpacks. We were surrounded by glorious green … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, character, dogs, gear, hiking, nature, New Mexico, Pecos Wilderness, Trail Writer's Guide, wilderness
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Colleen’s Journal at Hubopi
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Hiking Writing Walk to the Hubopi village in Ojo Caliente
Walks in the American West: Myth & Magic in Ojo Caliente – A Trail Writing Walk with Cinny Green Continue reading
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EYE TO EYE by Jan Marquart
Jan attended my “Writing in the Wild” workshop at the New Mexico Women Authors Festival in Santa Fe last Sunday. She sent me this evocative piece she wrote based on the Trail writer’s Guide exercise. Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, book event, books, coyote, desert, hiking, nature, Trail Writer's Guide, walking, wilderness, writing
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NM Women Authors’ Extravaganza!
The 3rd Annual New Mexico Women Author’s Book Festival will be held from Wednesday, September 28 to Sunday, October 3, 2010. More than 100 women authors will be reading and talking at the New Mexico History Museum at 113 Lincoln … Continue reading
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Become A Trail Writer
With each step, you become more solid. As you become more solid, you are more free …. As your solidity and freedom grow stronger, you begin to touch the ground of your being. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh JOIN A TRAIL … Continue reading
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