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thoughts, photographs, clippings, etc.

A page from a journal with a watercolor of a desert scene at dusk. We see mountains and the sky awash in golden light, the sun low on the horizon. A translucent brown cloud encroaches on the scene from the right, beginning to block out the sun. A handwritten caption on the right of the frame reads Dust Storm, US 90 outside Marathon, Texas, 4-18-25

Dust Storm

— I do some of my best thinking on long drives.

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”

― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

The title block from a USGS topo map from the 1950s: CHROMO QUADRANGLE / COLORADO- ARCHULETA CO / 15 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC)

Chromo Mountain, 1:30am

— Driving through the American Southwest at night is an exercise in surrealism. Making music about it is something else.

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