going inside

i'm going inside...for ten days, my third time, a vipassana meditation sit. catch you on the other side.

fall

some pictures of fall i shot a few weeks back when my parents were visiting. we toured around new hampshire following a path that gordon took me on a couple years ago.

maine

peter fills out forms

amazing landscape

reel pizza

amazing steps!

the magical light of november

early last week i took a trip up to maine to visit my friend peter who lives in bar harbor. i'd never been there before and peter graciously toured me around and introduced me to a number of his friends over the couple days i was able to take off. i met a number of peter's buddys tuesday night at a movie house that's also a bar and pizza joint. the theater has a mix of couches up front and regular theater seats with bar counters between in the rear. it was delightful drinking a beer and eating pizza in a movie theater. gives me some ideas for white river junction.

my last day there i got the opportunity to visit a site for which i designed a building in architecture school 17 years ago. my design wasn't built—it was just a school project—but it would have looked pretty good despite my absence on the field trip. i had intended to take my model up to maine, but forgot.

i love visiting resort destinations off season. there is an element of modern ruin that i find delicious. in evidence are stores, restaurants, bars, hotels, boats, cars, parks, really a whole urban fabric that's been wrapped up, sometimes literally, for the off season. people are scarce. peter and i met one woman during an hour-long evening walk through the heart of bar harbor. it reminds me of purposeless purposiveness. you can see that people were once present in hordes and yet there is no one about. sublime!

tunes

i've been playing a lot of music lately, with friends and by myself. over the summer i played acoustic guitar with friends at the faerie camp. we recorded some of our jams and i'm eager to hear them. because we didn't have anything else to record with we used a still camera in movie mode! lately, i've been spending some of my evenings using garageband, a simple but wonderful mac recording application that's great for making quick sketches. here's one i did this evening: PLAY. don't ask me what the lyrics mean! i sung them in one take while making them up. oh, and i cut off the first note of the song... sorry!

here's another one i did a couple weeks ago: PLAY.

boo

the problem with not posting very often is that so much stuff builds up to write about that it seems impossible to start. topics become unwieldy. i have to remind myself to think small.

we had a great halloween party here in white river junction, aka rio blanco. enough people showed up to completely fill main street. our first parade six years ago fit entirely on the sidewalk. the word seems to be spreading that our little town is a fun place to hang.

i discovered a long lost friend online, but can't find a way to contact him. so, perhaps he'll google himself and find this: joshua love leave a comment with your email--i moderate comments so it won't go public.

in other news, i'm moving ahead with a new building project downtown. i've been working with a business partner for the last year, nearly, to put together a new venue for downtown white river, a theater/performance/lounge space that i hope will become home to lots of funky, experimental and interesting film, video, music, puppetry and who knows what else.

i'll be soon doing another meditation sit for 10 days after which i'll be heading to california for a couple weeks to help my parents with their house and visit with my brother and his family.

that's the news.