Category Archives: Daily Life

Marfa eccentrics

OK, so this topic could fill a book, a tome. There’s this guy in town who puts his small dog in his white van every morning and evening and drives around town, the dog with his head out the window, … Continue reading

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Home Redux

As long as I can remember I have been searching for my ‘home at the end of the world’ (to use Michael Cunningham’s words). One of my earliest memories is standing at the back door of my parents’ house thinking … Continue reading

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Home

I once was a dancer and a pianist and a painter and a writer, trying them on to see if they would fit. I eventually chose one – painting – and devoted myself to it. I now find I have … Continue reading

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Scatter Pieces

From nowhere four cardboard polyhedrons, spray-painted black, appeared on my street, blown here by the strong West Texas wind. I like that I have no idea where they came from or who created them. Every time the wind blows, they … Continue reading

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Another day in Marfa

This afternoon, late, I lay in the lawnchair in my backyard, gazing up at the piercingly blue sky framed by the new, green leaves of the elm. The doves and grackles and birds I don’t know names for called from … Continue reading

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