I am beginning to time travel. Aren’t we all, at this time of year? Thinking about kangaroo rats and a building designed by aliens is helping me keep it together. Hope it's helpful for you too.
What a recommendation, Chris! I am trying not to let the attack get to me too much but do find that I’m using the gym a bit more for later-evening treadmill walks rather than walking around the neighborhood. At any rate, I suddenly have podcast time so this is absolutely perfect, thanks so much!
OMG I'm so jealous about the Integratron! That sounds amazing. (No pun intended.) And geeking or over animals is always appreciated. I once almost saw a least weasel in a zoo. It was in a glass enclosure and never stopped moving. I'm not sure I actually saw it, or someone rapidly waving a hanky.
I can't wait to join the chats. I scolded substack to make it available via the web as well as the apps. I'm on android and I'm simply itching to start chats. Speaking of fandom to eleven, have you seen any furries on your hikes again?
I mean, can a year be wrong if it starts out with crystal sound bathing? And that’s a good tip about the weasels -- I guess that’s why no one ever sees them in the wild. (Or at any rate, why it’s difficult.) They are similar to the furries in the sense that I haven’t seen any more of them either. I think one is just occasionally blessed by these things, just as one might be blessed by an alien landing?
You're going there for New Year's? Please play "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" by the Carpenters on your phone at some point. (or by Klaatu, the original. Or any version. I guarantee it will play in your head as you walk that place, at least until the sound bath.
You have MADE my day, Hannah. Kangaroo rats bounce by on our back patio. I haven't seen them yet this year, but I think the cats have. I'm so glad you're coming out to the desert. (This is Anne-Louise)
"leave the past alone, like a ragged t shirt, and wear the scratchy sweaters of our current selves on top of it" is such a perfect description of what this kind of time travel with friends feels like! I'll be taking it with me when I visit a couple of friends next month I've known for thirty years, but see only once a year. I hope you write about your integratron experience- it's actually only a couple of hours away from where I usually meet my friends. Maybe we should change things up one of these years and go there 🤔
This is what you need for all things Mojave, high desert, Joshua Tree, etc.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/desert-oracle-volume-1-strange-true-tales-from-the-american-southwest-ken-layne/15877985?ean=9781250800350
Also the only podcast I listen to.
What a recommendation, Chris! I am trying not to let the attack get to me too much but do find that I’m using the gym a bit more for later-evening treadmill walks rather than walking around the neighborhood. At any rate, I suddenly have podcast time so this is absolutely perfect, thanks so much!
OMG I'm so jealous about the Integratron! That sounds amazing. (No pun intended.) And geeking or over animals is always appreciated. I once almost saw a least weasel in a zoo. It was in a glass enclosure and never stopped moving. I'm not sure I actually saw it, or someone rapidly waving a hanky.
I can't wait to join the chats. I scolded substack to make it available via the web as well as the apps. I'm on android and I'm simply itching to start chats. Speaking of fandom to eleven, have you seen any furries on your hikes again?
I mean, can a year be wrong if it starts out with crystal sound bathing? And that’s a good tip about the weasels -- I guess that’s why no one ever sees them in the wild. (Or at any rate, why it’s difficult.) They are similar to the furries in the sense that I haven’t seen any more of them either. I think one is just occasionally blessed by these things, just as one might be blessed by an alien landing?
You're going there for New Year's? Please play "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" by the Carpenters on your phone at some point. (or by Klaatu, the original. Or any version. I guarantee it will play in your head as you walk that place, at least until the sound bath.
Ha! I’ll start now just so I’m prepared. 😁
You have MADE my day, Hannah. Kangaroo rats bounce by on our back patio. I haven't seen them yet this year, but I think the cats have. I'm so glad you're coming out to the desert. (This is Anne-Louise)
No, you’re kidding?!? OMG, scratch the previous version of heaven, the new one has kangaroo rats bouncing around. So glad I’m coming out too. 🦘🐀💗
"leave the past alone, like a ragged t shirt, and wear the scratchy sweaters of our current selves on top of it" is such a perfect description of what this kind of time travel with friends feels like! I'll be taking it with me when I visit a couple of friends next month I've known for thirty years, but see only once a year. I hope you write about your integratron experience- it's actually only a couple of hours away from where I usually meet my friends. Maybe we should change things up one of these years and go there 🤔