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We\u2019re back from vacation, a trip to Durango, Colorado and the Four Corners region. It was a mostly good trip with a few small negatives, like getting lost on the way back and a broken windshield on the rental car. Over the next couple of days I\u2019ll post some pictures and some thoughts I had on the trip.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll start with our first destination, Hovenweep National Monument<\/a> in southeastern Utah. It was built by the ancestral Puebloans, who lived there from about 500 to 1300 CE. Then they moved on, presumably because of climate change, but no one really knows \u2013 the legends of their current descendants just say their ancestors lived there, not why they left.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a shot of Cathy and I standing in front of one of the ruins. You can\u2019t really tell from this shot, but behind the building is a canyon \u2013 the structures were all build right on the edge.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>And here\u2019s a shot of the countryside. In today\u2019s climate, I can\u2019t see anyone living here without modern utilities.<\/p>\n

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I tried to open myself to the spirit of the place and all I got was \u201chot and dry.\u201d Whatever energy was built up by the people who lived here has either dissipated or is overwhelmed by the spirit of the desert. Although Egpyt is a half a world away, I kept hearing one of the closing lines to our Summer Solstice ritual: \u201cthe desert is always waiting, and Set is never sated.\u201d <\/div>\n

More to come over the next few days\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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