Sunday, June 24, 2012

MAGE MUSIC: The Sorcerer's Apprentices (Part 1)

MAGE MUSIC: Mage Music: The Sorcerer's Apprentices (Part 1): Hubble image: Omega/Swan Nebula (M17) It is extraordinarily difficult to forge a new path, to boldly go where no artist, musician or M...

Sunday, June 17, 2012

MAGE MUSIC: Mage Music: Lucifer, Bringer of Light

MAGE MUSIC: Mage Music: Lucifer, Bringer of Light: Mage Music:  Lucifer, Bringer of Light There is no doubt that music is a form of communication, a kind of language that is meant to conv...

Sunday, June 10, 2012

MAGE MUSIC: Ritual is not Magick

MAGE MUSIC: Mage Music: Ritual is not Magick: A black robe with a black cat looking on, a few candles and props, a chanted spell and a pass with the wand:  Magic?  No way!  On stage, ma...

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Environmental destruction

June 6, 2012.  The Whitewater-Baldy fire is now 263,589 acres as of last night's IR flight.  It's not the largest fire ever in the west, but at 412 square miles, it is plenty big.  This photo is what the Rodeo-Chediski fire  looks like today, after 10 years of "regrowth".  This is what a large portion of the Gila Wilderness will look like in 10 years from now.  This is how the Wilderness Act "protects" our wilderness.  Isn't it time to reconsider environmental policies in the USA?
Rodeo-Chediski Fire 10 years after the flames.  Photo: L Strand 2012
All those new little trees growing?  Juniper and scrub oak.  Not a Ponderosa pine to be seen.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

MAGE MUSIC: Mage Music: Imagine This

MAGE MUSIC: Mage Music: Imagine This: Mage Music: Imagine This Aubrey Beardsley Frontispiece to  The Wonderful History of Vergilius the Sorcerer 1893   What exactly ma...

Monday, April 16, 2012

San Augustin Water Grab: A Battle Won But Not the War

A Battle Won But Not the War
Cathie R. Eisen
Walking Water Consulting
PO Box 133
Nogal, New Mexico
April 8, 2012

Across the southern states a battle is raging for our most precious resource. The value of water has reached a premium, and it will only increase with time. As the cities and counties of the west continue to grow, so does the need for new water sources to support their ever increasing demands. While the quest for oil is on the forefront of everyone's mind, dollar for dollar, water is by far more valuable. We can live without oil if necessary, but we must have water to survive. During the past few years, several applications have been submitted to the State Engineers Office in New Mexico for the purpose of tapping into the deeper aquifers, waters which were previously deemed unusable and were until now unprotected from such requests. One by one, they have been protested and denied. This is not the end of the effort. Future legislation will support these requests as our cities continue to grow along with the residential demand for additional supplies; water for sanitary and domestic water use is and always will be a priority to developers and communities. The health and welfare of the masses could easily trump the livelihood of the rural ranchers. They are few, rural residents are many.   More at Glenwood Gazette... 

Monday, April 9, 2012

April 28 Writer’s Workshop "Earning Money From Writing" Springerville AZ

Author Steven F. Havill will conduct a six hour writer’s workshop, Earning Money from Your Writing, in Springerville AZ on Saturday, April 28.  Limited to 16 seats (two are already taken!)