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Don McIver 1801 Gold Ave. SE Albuquerque, NM 87106 Moon As a young man, I was fond of dropping trou... finding some out of the way place: the roof of a school cafeteria, the top of empty bleachers, a rock overlooking a cityscape and announcing, "Hey look everybody....it's a full moon over Cheyenne, Boulder, Lakewood, Golden, out of the way remote locations, usually after a night of suburban drinking, or smoking, or both. Don't know what I was trying to achieve or hoping to prove, but after a while it became a running joke and then the places weren't even remote or private: full moon against my best friend's bedroom window, the dining room at our local favorite fast food joint, the Xerox machine at my first office job. I'm still not shy, but, older now, find reasons for keeping my pants firmly in place: hiding behind words like appropriate, maturity, "not really feeling it." What do we hide behind when we're on display? ostentatious, blending in by sticking out? How much do we notice the moon anymore? The full moon doing nothing more than just being. February 1,2011 Read w/ Chuck Hawley on lap steel on February 4th, 2011 Encylopedia Show: The Moon. |
The Map. Overview: Starting in the San Juans in Colorado, the Rio Grande "is the twenty-second longest river in the world and the fourth or fifth longest in North America" ( Texas State Historical Society ). While the river is characterized by the area it flows through, the river from Elephant Butte Dam to the south to Cochiti Dam in the north is called the Middle Rio Grande. And in the middle of the middle Rio Grande is the roughly 20 plus miles that flows through Albuquerque. From an airplane, the Rio Grande is a brown ribbon bordered a green ribbon. That green ribbon is the Bosque . I've always been fascinated really exploring an area, getting a sort of overview of an area then drilling down to really get it. It's led to me hiking the Sandias from end to end and then hiking outlying trails multiple times, biking all the trails in the Cedro Peak area because someone put them on a map, trying different routes to get to ...
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