If events unfolded as they were supposed to yesterday I am kicking around Sante Fe New Mexico today, waiting for the shuttle which will deliver me to Ghost Ranch, the Presbyterian conference centre in the high desert of this state. This time I flew through Dallas rather than Minneapolis or Denver. I am becoming familiar with a number of big airports, if not the cities they represent. Sante Fe is a cool town filled with artists, galleries and museums.
Ghost Ranch is in the midst of marvelous landscape and this evening I will begin a weeklong course called Water and the Baptismal Life. The leadership will include religious types who can remind us of the spiritual signifcance of water in our Judeo-Christian tradition, along with water specialists in different scientific fields. I think it will be an excellent few days in a setting I have come to love.
Maybe I will discover the Mel Blanc museum which celebrates the guy who gave us the Roadrunner and Coyote. i have been to the Georgia O'Keefe museum, but I may go back.
Ghost Ranch is in the midst of marvelous landscape and this evening I will begin a weeklong course called Water and the Baptismal Life. The leadership will include religious types who can remind us of the spiritual signifcance of water in our Judeo-Christian tradition, along with water specialists in different scientific fields. I think it will be an excellent few days in a setting I have come to love.
Maybe I will discover the Mel Blanc museum which celebrates the guy who gave us the Roadrunner and Coyote. i have been to the Georgia O'Keefe museum, but I may go back.
Pray that I don't take the wrong turn and end up in Albuquerque!
Mel Blanc was the man. I still can't listen to the new guy(s) that do those classic characters. (Interesting to note that since Blanc died in the early '90s, they now have multiple voice artists covering what he used to do himself!)
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Your course sounds interesting, David. For some reason, I was/am always moved by those sections of the Bible where water is used to cleanse and purify someone. It will be interesting to see how you use this material when you're back.
Sounds like a great course. Check out the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. It has some great works. Or the Nedra Matteucci Galleries,( great Russian Art). Have a great time.
ReplyDeleteI think Neil Young sang that Albuquerque was a good place to go to be alone..(So I'll stop when I can,Find some fried eggs
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I'll find somewhere where
they don't care who I am.
Oh, Albuquerque,
Albuquerque).
Probably after a busy year that might even have some appeal but hopefully you made your turn and are off on some stimulating learning at Ghost Ranch.
Interesting you'll be studying water in a place where I presume the landscape would reflect a lack of water.
Travelling mercies!