Coyote Crossing

Energy waste as seen by the International Space Station

If you haven’t seen the amazing time-lapse video generated from footage shot by residents of the International Space Station, you should do so now. I’ve embedded it here. It’s undeniably beautiful. But there’s something about it that’s incredibly

Stars

I’m up in my writers’ group this week, and I’m cranking out Chapter 11* of the Joshua tree book, writing about the night I took this photo. So here it is.

*No bankruptcy jokes please. Too close to home what with working 10 hours a … (continues)

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A quarter of my life I’ve lain here in these rocks and thorns, watching Orion’s cold shoulder wheel through the late autumn sky, or waking a few hours into a summer night to watch the bleary Pleiades ascend.

The great bear circles warily in the

One cool thing about this planet

is its convenient location and excellent view. Boston.com has photos of today’s total solar eclipse, with my favorite (though it was hard to choose) yoinked and pasted in below.

A partial solar eclipse is seen near the minaret of a mosque in

Stargazing

Under this vault of stars I am content.
Stuck fast to this small rock I am at ease.
Minuscule, ego fading by degrees
and what remains of little consequence.
Only the wind and stars, and nighttime shades
of loves abandoned, fire going cold
as in the

Letters from the desert: Dark

A few hundred miles of desert two-lane at night, no radio nor moon nor competing traffic to interfere with the cascade of thought, and the dark folds itself in around my pallid headlamps. The high-beams have developed a disconcerting tendency to go

Dark Mojave Skies party, October 25

I’m going to be here, and I hope you will … (continues)