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Blogging tonight from an undisclosed location in northern New Mexico. This is the view from the porch.<\/p>\n
Northern New Mexico, after all, is where I became a capital-P Pagan, with only the help of the old poet, Her touch, and the whisper of the acequia entre los sauces. <\/em>It is where I go to think about things and to catch up with myself. (I realize that I am slightly closer to where I was born than to where I now live.)<\/p>\n The Undisclosed Location has pretty good wifi for not being in town. That’s a bonus. Pronghorn antelope look up from the grass as I drive by on the way to town. And I re-visited a place where they don’t exactly turn boys into men, but maybe into slightly less idiotic boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blogging tonight from an undisclosed location in northern New Mexico. This is the view from the porch. Northern New Mexico, after all, is where I became a capital-P Pagan, with only the help of the old poet, Her touch, and the whisper of the acequia entre los sauces. 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