July 12, 2025
I've been having fun in my studio. Because of the heat, I have been getting out on my morning walks as early as 5:30 to avoid the furnace blast at sunrise. This has given me a sweet peek at a very cool (literally!) early morning phenom.
Daily Whip Out:"First Light On New River Mesa"
Love that thin lighting at predawn and you can expect to see more of these until late October when it finally cools down.
So, What Exactly Has History Taught Me?
On a recent visit my grandkids asked me why I love history so much and I told them I enjoy seeking the truth about what really happened. And you know how kids are, I got an obvious follow up question: "Well grandpa, how much truth did you find?"
Ha. Good question grasshopper!
The longer I do this the more doubts creep in about what is true and what is manufactured BS.
Add to that, half the stuff we were taught when I was growing up turned out to be wrong, or seriously misguided, plus some of our heroes turned into villains—Custer and Carson for example—and some of the villains turned into freedom fighters—Geronimo and Sitting Bull to name just a few—and many of the conclusions tended to wander off point a bit as well: Justice at the O.K. Corral, anyone?
"Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed."
—Joseph Campbell, "The Hero With A Thousand Faces"
“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. Because the truth is never just one thing is it? Life is layered, contradictory, always in flux. To try and pin it down is like trying to catch wind in your hands. But through story, through emotion, we get close to something that feels real.”
—Doris Lessing, “The Golden Notebook” (1962)
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