Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hare Moon<\/p>\n
Santa Fe. \u00a0Staying in a reasonably priced motel right in the heart of adobe filled Santa Fe. \u00a0The cathedral featured in Death Comes for the Archbishop is only a block or two away. \u00a0I came to Santa Fe after seeing Chaco Canyon.<\/p>\n
Due to a weird late night mix up I checked into a motel-cheap-no phone, no wi-fi she said. \u00a0I didn’t mind. \u00a0She forgot to add no heat. \u00a0This in Holbrook, AZ high up just past the Mogollon Rim. \u00a049 when I pulled in. I was too tired to hassle it so I went to sleep.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, years of living with Kate have taught me cold sleeping skills. \u00a0It was fine until I woke up 4 am. I’d never shifting my bed time from home, nor my rising, so the 6 am Minnesota equivalent had me awake. \u00a0I decided to get in the warm car and drive to Chaco Canyon. \u00a0Which I did.<\/p>\n
This is a haunting place, difficult to get to now as it must have been difficult to get to in the period between 850 a.d and 1150 a.d. when it flourished. \u00a0It was, for that time period the ceremonial for the pueblo peoples. \u00a0The architecture of Chaco County shows up in many other pueblo peoples sites, though much more modest in scale.<\/p>\n
The Chaco folks built big. \u00a0And they built stone on stone, with a mud mortar. \u00a0The construction technique reminded me of dry stone fences in the East.<\/p>\n
The part of each person’s inner life that reaches out to a particular patch of mother earth has created thousands of small kivas, I’ll call them. \u00a0The pueblo people go into the below ground circular stone structures called kiva’s as if returning to the womb. Each time they come out, they’re reborn. \u00a0So a kiva is a patch of earth where you feel reborn. \u00a0For me it’s our gardens and woods and orchard, for the pueblo people its Chaco Canyon and the Four Sacred Mountains.<\/p>\n
Each patch of earth needs a kiva that holds it dear and feels responsible for its care. \u00a0And who, in turn, are reborn in the giving of that care by the earth. \u00a0This is a faith with so many worship sites and the worship is different for each kiva. \u00a0What kiva do you belong to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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