Going Alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgcxnZEwhEkMy desert home offers few amenities. So I pass the time watching mountain shadows grow long across the desert…feeling hot wind gust beneath the bridge onto my skin…listening to the sound of infrequent trucks and cars rumble by overhead…and writing down the thoughts I wish to leave behind.Here’s what it’s like to write the opening section of a book chapter under a bridge below historic Route 66 in the middle of the California desert i

Long ago, I remember learning of a famous astronomer who used the walls and ceiling of his study as a canvas to write down thoughts and quotes he hoped to remember. His words are there still, in an upper chamber of a small castle turret in Europe, which he used as his retreat to consider the world and the cosmos. Inspired by his example, I’ve decided to make use the very old wooden beams of my Route 66 writing bridge to remember which chapters of the new book I’ve completed,