by Deonne Kahler | Nov 28, 2017 | Follow Your Bliss
Spoiler alert: this probably isn’t. I’ve committed to making something new every day, which I’m truly happy about. With this level of activity, generating this much raw material, by spring I’ll have a whole bunch of little stuff I can choose...
by Deonne Kahler | Nov 27, 2017 | Home in Taos
I’ve hiked to Williams Lake a jillion times, and had never seen what I saw yesterday. Sam and I hiked with Adrian (my dear friend who’s staying on Kahler Island while she gets resettled in Taos) up an icy trail – foreshadowing alert! – to get...
by Deonne Kahler | Nov 24, 2017 | Travel
Here we are, post-Thanksgiving (in the U.S., at least), and I’m feeling even more grateful than yesterday. I had a wonderful meal with fun, interesting people, and it did not include any of the following: decades-old family arguments, Jello “salad,”...
by Deonne Kahler | Nov 23, 2017 | Home in Taos
Today I’m grateful for jigsaw puzzles. Also friends and family and good men (one in particular), adorable dogs, my healthy body, and that ice cream that’s less than 300 calories a pint. (Don’t judge.) Later today I’ll go to a friend’s...
by Deonne Kahler | Nov 22, 2017 | Follow Your Bliss
Playing the song Hotel California. Making an entire Thanksgiving dinner from scratch. Solving complex problems. This morning on the radio I heard Joe Walsh talking about playing with The Eagles, and how there are plenty of their songs he can sail through, but the one...
by Deonne Kahler | Nov 21, 2017 | Photography
The crabapple tree in my courtyard has lost all its leaves, which makes it easier to see the birds that hang out there. I’ve been trying to capture them with the camera, but the minute I open the front door they fly off. (Selfish birds!) Yesterday I got the zoom...
by Deonne Kahler | Nov 20, 2017 | Music
I’m transferring cassettes of songs I wrote in the ’90s to my laptop, and ran across a tape labelled “Anthology of Lameness.” The lead song is the first one I ever wrote, and it references genocide and Native Americans and is so earnest and...
by Deonne Kahler | Nov 15, 2017 | Travel
When I told people I was going to Ohio for a long weekend, a couple of them responded as if I’d said I was going to a party at Harvey Weinstein’s house. “Why on earth are you going to Ohio?” they’d gasp, and Internet, it offended me. I...
by Deonne Kahler | Oct 18, 2017 | Travel
Remember when I promised to share more lion photos from the Tanzania trip? That was, what, five years ago? Today I’m making good on that promise. I’ll spare you the reasons why I’ve been absent, but assure you that it’s all good stuff, with...
by Deonne Kahler | Sep 5, 2017 | Travel
Or, one of many ways Kansas is different than Tanzania. We saw a lot of lions on safari – mostly mothers and cubs – but they were usually tucked back in the tall grass and were hard to photograph. Once again, proving that wild animals have no manners when...
