So here we are in New Mexico. Interesting that my last post was of Richard Montoya's retabolo. And now we are back and have been in Santa Fe for the past six weeks. Last night it snowed. This morning we awoke to a bright sky and a thick blanket of snow on everything. Here is the dorway to our little casita, our home for the two months we are here on our sabbatical. It is funny that normally a sabbatical means a time off from work and since John and I are not employed we have a different meaning of this term. We are here for healing, for visioning, for seeing the way for our future. This very cozy 100-year-old adobe has been our haven during this time. The walls are thick and the wind doesn't blow inside so even on the coldest days, of which there have been many, it feels safe and warm.
We are on a tiny dirt road off a slightly larger dirt road called Arroyo Tenorio which is the full name of the famous don Juan. So if there is a meaning for Tenorio, it is to say, a don Juan. Arroyo means a watercourse, and northern New Mexico is full of arroyos which are normally dry sandy water beds which occasionally flow with water and then dry up again.