Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
22 September 2025
Filed under Ghost Ranch Views, New Mexico, Photo
Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
22 September 2025
Filed under Ghost Ranch Views, New Mexico, Photo
Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
22 September 2025
Filed under Ghost Ranch Views, New Mexico, Photo
Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
22 September 2025
Filed under Ghost Ranch Views, New Mexico, Photo
Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
23 September 2025
Filed under Ghost Ranch Views, New Mexico, Photo
Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
23 September 2025
Filed under Ghost Ranch Views, New Mexico, Photo
A prayer for friends
God who exists in relationship,
God who creates us for relationship,
we thank you for friends
who enrich and bless our lives.
We thank you for long-term friends,
who when we meet after a time of separation,
it is as though we have never been apart.
We thank you for new friends
whom we have just met
and with whom we are beginning a relationship.
We thank you for friends
of every sort and tenure,
each a gift from you,
each a unique presence in our lives.
May we treat kindly and well
the companions who accompany
us on life’s journey.
We pray in Jesus’ name.
Amen.
Filed under Friends, Ghost Ranch People, New Mexico, Prayer
Caressed by the wind,
the flames dance
above the candles,
each flame to its own rhythm:
each flame representing
God’s beloved children,
gone too soon,
taken too suddenly
by hot metal speeding from a metal tube,
after a trigger was pulled.
Back pressed into the wall,
I sat vigil,
watching the dancing flames
in horror,
in pain,
in remembrance,
in silent witness.
No more could I do.
More is needed.
24 August 2024
Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Filed under Gun Violence, Human Rights, New Mexico, Poem
I wait and watch, write and wonder
as birds fly above the field
and clouds gather over Pedernal.
The wind increases,
freshening the air,
rustling the leaves of the trees,
whipping through what little hair I have.
I retreat to the
cover of the dining hall
as the wind increases,
the birds disappear
the temperature dips
and large drops of water
plummet from the sky
and plop on the ground
bringing and renewing life.
23-24 August 2024
Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Filed under New Mexico, Poem
This was a challenge. I have not been to many places that are truly wilderness spaces or at least that fit my understanding of a wilderness.
Ghost Ranch, the setting for this photo, is beautiful and outdoors. But it is really well developed in terms of being a wilderness.
Still it remains a semi-wild place that feeds my soul and spirit.
Photo: Ghost Ranch, New Mexico; 30 August 2008
Filed under Advent, Ghost Ranch Views, Photo
Along the Graybeard Trail 