GS19: Wisdom)

Can Wisdom Exist Outside Human Consciousness?
"the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom
that America has yet contributed."

The vacuous wisdom of the Brat Boy
embodies so much primordial wisdom,
charming kids with the wisdom of wordsmithery,
purveyors of the slightly stale conventional wisdom.
The collective saloon-bar wisdom,
stumbling around for dubious wisdom,
a word of wisdom from a dog who's maybe lived too long,
can't decide whether this is wisdom or resignation.

Google in its mysterious wisdom
discovered, invented or got enlightened
     through divine wisdom,
in his magnificently malevolent bastard wisdom,
her near-infinite wit and wisdom—
and digesting the wisdom of great desingers
were wont to show their weather wisdom.

~Dig Chase 2006

GS18: The Past

The Demons That Keep Rising Up From The Past
to both obsession with and blindness to the past

Some of you may remember my earlier diaries over the past
probably won't take as many roadtrips over the summer
     as I have in the past.
Many of us have played out "what if" scenarios about
     this kind of thing in the past
without apology and without encumbrances from the past
have had nuanced positions in the past.
For acquiring data which is reaching farther into the past,
you're going to build a bridge from the past to the future
before you go reminiscing about how much better the past was.

I'm betting some of you have given this issue a bit
     of thought in the past
but to my eye the substance often remains amazingly akin
     to that of the past.
If you’ve struggled with persona development in the past
language is more or less bare of allusion to the past,
or turning their back on the outdated methods of the past
briefings will continue as they have in the past.

~Dig Chase 2006

GS17: The Future

In fact, the likeliest path for the future of
     user-created content is derivative works.

They were certain of the future. It was the past
     that kept changing.
The past was never over, the future had always begun.
When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.
Our roots are clearly set in the future, as
     the Arab poet Adonis wrote it.
This is beyond cool, this is the future!
Any technical architecture is about planning for
     and anticipating the future.
It makes no sense to erect ideological roadblocks
     to the miracles of the future.
If the creator of the language is perceived as
     a blocker to the future of the language there is
     obviously something wrong.

He could see into the future and admitted consulting
     imaginary mystic dwarfs.
If he cares about the future as he claims he does,
     it would mean that he would have to stop fucking around.
I will not allow gaming skills of the future to be
     inherent to the common couch potato.
The robots also have to compete against technologically
     augmented humans, whom I suspect will be the real
     force of the future.
But there is a storm blowing from Paradise, and this
     storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future.
In the future, we will all have jet-powered cars.

~Dig Chase 2006

GS16: Enchantment

Enchantment Pet Resort and Spa Indeed.

In an age of increased interest in mystical,
     mythical, mysterious, questions, wonder, enchantment,
     black holes, and anti-metanarrative,
I need Fireflies around me to have this kind of enchantment.
In the land of enchantment, tamales, enchiladas, posole
     and beans all smothered with the spicy goodness of chile,
blue was inspired by the enchantment of twilight.
I ordered a large cut of Enchantment for Fairy Moon and
     a large cut of Oceantide for Mermaids of the Deep Blue
as I come out of my coma. My curiosity and wonder are coming
     to the tea party bearing the gifts of enchantment and zeal.
Personally, I think if you do lose your sense of enchantment
     with the world, it's not the fault of science really;
the cogs and gears of enchantment are not built with
     tolerance for failure.

I departed with few of the fools to get the drink of enchantment.
The magical enchantment this snake possessed was convincing.
How dare you market a perfume with my signature Enchantment
     name at Wal-Mart!
Our culture often takes pride in disproving and exploding
     the sources of enchantment.
We are planning to launch the first billboards here
     in the Land of Enchantment:
The Enchantment Is In the Marrow.

~Dig Chase 2006

GS15: Sedona II

Driving the Loop from Phoenix to Sedona Is to Travel from the Past
to Present in the Footsteps of the Famous and Infamous

I met Juliette outside Calling All Angels before
     she moved to Sedona.
Did psychic Sedona really foresee her own death?
As it turns out Sedona hasn't seen rain in over 140 days.
Sedona had been recommended to us, for its lovely red terrain.
I would like to see that cave when I make it to Sedona.
Sedona seemed like a great compromise.
Come to Sedona and soothe your soul.
I wanna send everyone "power" from Sedona.

There were other monologue shows and the last was Sedona.
I had not been to Sedona in ages.
Sedona is just about the perfect distance from our house.
I had the great opportunity this weekend to be spoiled in Sedona.
Through the heart of Sedona, and the realm of mystics,
I am finishing the transition stages of this Chapter
     of my life in Sedona.

~Dig Chase 2006

GS14: Vishnu Schist

Chunks of Old, Tried Vishnu Schist Were Scattered About the Hillside

The black rock of the Vishnu Schist mercilessly absorbs the sun
     and bakes the air.
Life was metamorphosed by other viruses in the DNA like
     the Vishnu Schist.
The bottommost layer does not exist in this sentence: a layer
     of Vishnu Schist and Zoroaster Granite, which is volcanic rock,
     cooled magma and slowly cooled and crystallized rock forms
     raised from the mantle of the Earth.
At 1.7 billion years old, Vishnu schist is some of the oldest rock
     on the planet.
And did you know, there are many points on the Grand Canyon
     that are named "Vishnu Schist (the lowest strata of the canyon
     almost 1.5 billion years old)."
The strata are Dark Gray, Vishnu schist, Tapeats Sandstone.
There are unconformities between the Unkar Group and
     the Vishnu Schist.
The missing geological ages between the Vishnu schist and
     the Tonto are known as the Great Unconformity

A mountain formed and then was eroded and washed away,
     leaving the Vishnu Schist.
Can you say "vishnu schist" 10 times?
Precambrian rocks are first exposed--dark-colored Vishnu Schist
     (and how did that Hindu word for God get on this rock's name
     in the Grand Canyon?)
Vishnu Schist, she called it.
The Vishnu Schist (I love that word) is about 1.8 billion years old.
This black stuff, the heart of the earth, is Vishnu Schist.


~Dig Chase 2006

GS13: Anasazi

Can you show me the way to the anasazi caves?

Looking for anasazi home designs and anasazi home designs
     related information?
Native American groups such as the Anasazi settled the area
     that is now Las Vegas about 2300 years ago.
Their name was Anasazi, it means ancient aliens.
I find it interesting that the Hopi had a term Anasazi,
     which meant, "ant people".
The name "Anasazi" has fallen out of favor, but none of
     the other names now used for this vanished civilization
     are satisfactory, either.
I'm sure we have all seen the television shows on
     the mysterious Anasazi Indians.
Now, new research using simulation models suggests
     that the great puebloan people known as the Anasazi
     met their rapid demise in the 14th Century AD as a
     result of a complex set of factors or causes, not
     just climate change
The explosion was so brilliant it was visible during
     the day and was recorded by observers around the world,
     including the Anasazi.

She breaks his priceless Anasazi vase.
It tells the story of Sosi, an Anasazi girl who feels
     more than a little rejected by her family as they stress
     over a drought.
Years before I had heard rumors about an Anasazi ruin.
Well, it appears that snakes with sinister connotations
     are not unknown in Anasazi sites.
There in the dirt lie five hand-sized pieces of a broken
     ancient Anasazi pot.
The Anasazi used many different types of symmetry when
     they painted their pottery.

~Son Rivers 2006

GS12: Saguaro

Rose At 5:15 To Head Out And Harvest
Saguaro (Pronounced 'Sah Hwar Oh') Fruits
In The Upper Sonoran Desert

Dreams of propagating a Saguaro Cactus in my
     Hill Top garden are vanishing.
The Saguaro National Park has more saguaro cacti
     then you can shake a stick at.
Venture into the Arizonan desert on a May or
     June morning and you may see the saguaro in bloom.
Saguaro stood shoulder to shoulder, covering acres.
I saw this saguaro yesterday with the baby arms,
     starting-those little nubs on the sides.
The more limbs the saguaro has, the older it is.
The cactus that shares the stage with me here
     is a saguaro and is likely over a hundred years old.
If you’d like to know the age of any given Saguaro
     cactus, please contact Flat Stanley.

This Saguaro Cactus stood about three times taller than me.
I'm always looking for textures and contrasts
     and I found both in this Saguaro skeleton in my yard.
Really what I want you to see is the amazing
     crested saguaro in the background.
A saguaro cactus provides a home for many birds.
This dove is an important pollinator of the saguaro,
so full of facts like a saguaro full of water threatening
     to burst in a lightning storm.

~Dig Chase 2006

GS11: Sage + Yucca

Sage Brush, Yucca, And Prickly Pear
Are All Examples Of Xerophytes

The mountain wildflowers were covered in mist,
     the Mexican heather, and mountain sage smelling
     so fresh and the Yucca tall and arrogant over
     the trodden grass.
Predominant hues are various golds, russets,
     and browns, along with the greens of yucca,
     joshua, juniper, and sage.
I have Bulbine and Red Yucca, Red Cannas, Red
     and Purple Daylillies, Gold and Purple Lantana
     (which is the name of my car, by the way),
     Jerusalem Sage.
We've traded Nebraska's cottonwoods, Russian
     olives, and bluebells for Colorado's yucca
     and purple sage,
a two-lane paved road that slices dead-straight
     through the sage and yucca.
Then the truck raced off again over clumps
     of sage brush, old wagon trails, and yucca plants.
I have been seeing yucca for about the last
     70 miles or so, but now I saw my first prickly
     pear cactus and lots of sage brush of a blueish
     color growing in the sandy soil.
The smell of the sage enveloped us as we made
     the sidewalk and I did, for a second, looking
     up at the yucca blooms, forget where I was.

I can plant sweetgrass in the back yard and
     the side yards and poppies, dandelions, clover
     in the front yards, and sage in the very front
     with the yucca,
maybe focus on plants I can find on our property,
     something very wild and western, maybe some
     yucca and sage.
It struck me, because after our remodeled house
     was stuccoed, I painted many squares of sage green
     + barberry leaf green + yucca green on the front
     and side walls.
The spiked yucca, mid-left, is Banana Yucca
     (Yucca baccata) and behind that is what is
     commonly called Great Basin Sage.
The plant life is quite varied, depending upon
     the exposure, and runs from cactus to yucca, to sage.
Singing-man malaises of buckthorn in the
     shoulder-shrugging, and of sage-brush in the south,
     cover the hyper-calvinistic lands, while in
     the soft-carpeted desert sought, prickly strenui,
     yucca, and arch-usurper grow with the rhynierson.

~Dig Chase 2006


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GS10: Betatakin

Contrast Ancient Toeholds In The Betatakin Ruins

The cliff house of Betatakin has only ceremonial structures.
During the summer, the sun never fully hits Betatakin.
Betatakin is set within a fantastic sandstone arch facing south.
Betatakin Canyon is one of the secrets which few people know.
The Wetherill brothers had discovered Keet Seel and Betatakin.
We endured a soaking downpour and wet night in the van
     at Betatakin.
You have a map of Orion overlaid with the Hopi/Anasazi sites
     with Rigel at Betatakin;
as bits of Navajo red clay fall to the floor from the soles,
     my mind wanders back to Betatakin.

Betatakin Fiddleleaf, Betatakin Nama,
Betatakin, one of these caves is 450 feet long.
Betatakin was created more than 900 years ago,
the lichen and moss flora of Betatakin.
Two springs and one well are near Betatakin,
the ruins of the mysterious forsaken Indian Village Betatakin.

~Dig Chase 2006


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GS9: Canyon de Chelly

Too Bad They Pronounce Chelly As Shay

The more I go there, the more the area of Black Rock Mountain
     and Round Rock and Canyon de Chelly feels like some
     home from another life.
So my husband drove diesel trucks cross country,
     my daughter continued school, and I worked with
     a nonprofit program called Trees for Mother Earth
     and planted about 12000 fruit trees in Canyon de Chelly.
My eight-year-old son had the amazing opportunity
     to play with two young Navajo boys he befriended
     on the floor of Canyon de Chelly.
Ruess kept a diary and wrote numerous letters to friends
     and family telling of his "serene and tempestuous days"
     scaling cliffs in Canyon de Chelly.
Now in her late 50s, Mike has cut back on the exercise,
     but she still hikes the White House Trail to the bottom
     of Canyon de Chelly every day.
Thankfully Jo-Anne called to Canyon De Chelly and figured
     out what had happened and I had to do some smooth side
     stepping to cover what I had thought to be a jeep.
Lewis has even seen placards and fencing tagged with
     gang words in car pull-out areas at Canyon de Chelly.
You don't see those stern fellows gathering for a nice
     tea party at the Canyon de Chelly.

Then, for purposes of achieving verisimilitude, I traveled
     through Canyon de Chelly with a Navajo guide.
It is the journey of Teddy Draper, a Navajo Codetalker
     from Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, to the islands of
     Iwo Jima, Guam, and Hawaii.
At the Canyon de Chelly visitor center, we met an Indian man
     who's claim to fame was that the famous photographer,
     Ansel Adams, had photographed his mother back in the 1940's,
a close-up of the rock art found in Canyon de Chelly.
     The famous Kokopelli can be seen reclining here but still
     playing his flute.
The sheer walls of 1000-foot high Canyon de Chelly,
     in north-eastern Arizona, enclose the free-standing
     pinnacle, Spider Rock. Navajo legend tells us that
     Spider Woman lived on Spider Rock.
If there’s one thing the water users in the Canyon
     de Chelly watershed have learned over the past decade
     of drought, it’s that there’s not enough water for
     everyone who wants it.

~Dig Chase 2006


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GS8: Painted Desert

If You Are Impressed With Colors, The Painted Desert Is A Must See

We crossed another time zone and reached the Painted Desert.
Unfortunately, the climate in the Painted Desert is extremely dry.
“This is the Painted Desert,” she said. Abby admired the jeweled
     canvas. “Who painted it?” Her host smiled, and the smile
     altered the landscape of her face. “We did.”
As you go on further in this park you start to get glimpses
     of the Painted Desert: pink and peach rocks and sands and,
     in the misty distance, strange cone shaped rock formations.
Lying as they fell millions of years ago, petrified trees rest
     in the sands of the Painted Desert.
It’s not necessarily the geology of Northern Arizona that steals
     my breath, nor the process of how the Navajo Sandstone
     was formed, or how the Moenkopi formation came to be, or
     how the Painted Desert could’ve once been a tropical beach:
The Painted Desert suffers neither of these fates.
I’d been through the Painted Desert and past the Petrified Forest
     and all I’d seen was white snow.

It is a Sunday morning in summer and a small brown chimpanzee
     named Rachel sits on the living room floor of a remote ranch
     house on the edge of the Painted Desert.
My big brother and I drove through the Painted Desert in 2002
     listening to “Bullet, the Blue Sky” as I returned from three
     years living in Los Angeles.
The area of the Painted Desert we got to see has similarities
     and differences from the Badlands which started out this
     trip for us.
We saw the observatory where they discovered Pluto and
     the Painted Desert.
Two giant crosses (no gold chains), one enormous teepee,
     a Painted Desert, and countless tumbleweeds later, we
     made it to Vegas.
It makes the Painted Desert look like a backyard rock garden.

~Dig Chase 2006


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GS7: Monument Valley

3-D Nude in Monument Valley

The opening scene in Monument Valley would have been better
     if they hadn't decided to use an incredibly lame
     animatronic eagle,
so the guitar in this is dusty like photographs of Monument Valley,
Monument Valley sunset during fire season.
So I quit the job and had a vague plan to go to Monument Valley
     in Utah or Colorado or wherever Monument Valley is because I
     had seen it on a TV show.
I could make it to Monument Valley, but there isn’t
     anything there but monuments and I am not ready to spend
     that much time there.
I started to head toward Monument Valley for a few miles,
     but it was late in the day, the sun would set soon, and I
     didn't want to be out in the desert, in unfamiliar territory,
     alone and after dark.
By the time I got to Monument Valley, though, the weather had
     turned to rather dramatic thunderstorms.
It may be untrue that I am now in Monument Valley; perhaps
     I've seen too many John Wayne movies lately.

Monument Valley, in southern Utah, is one of the most
     spectacular places on this good earth.
However, I picked the road out that was difficult to drive
     in order to see Valley of the Gods and
     Navajo Monument Valley.
It was the black and white photographs of Josef Muench taken in
     1936 which convinced the famous
     movie director to film the movie "Stage Coach"
     in Monument Valley,
but one after a long-term relationship went bad, but so slow
     in coming, like watching a horse and rider make its
     mile-by-mile way across Monument Valley, only to let
     the rider still surprise you upon arrival and put
     a bullet in your heart.
He likes a big, well-oiled, throbbing, extremely butch
     government that can stare with weary eyes out from
     a weathered face upon the blasted desert landscape
     of Monument Valley.
I can fly from here to Monument Valley in less time than
     it takes you to wash your ugly face!

~Dig Chase 2006


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GS6: Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon Charms Picky Kids

Perhaps no landscape on earth is as startling
     as the vast intricate face of the Grand Canyon.
The Grand Canyon was certainly going to be full of water.
J'imagine que le Grand Canyon,
my brother climbing some tree at the Grand Canyon.
When I went to Mexico a few years ago, we stopped
     at the Grand Canyon and there was quite a bit of snow there.
Meanwhile, some people believe that the Grand Canyon
     was formed by the great flood from Genesis.
Long ago, on the enormous far rim of the Grand Canyon
     in Arizona, lived the ancestors of the Snake Clan,
     who belonged to the Hopi Indian tribe.
Imagine walking on glass over the edge of the Grand Canyon.

For one thing...we had a near death experience
     on the Grand Canyon,
well, while in the Grand Canyon doing some fish work
     last couple of weeks I found this perty little
     rattler in our camp kitchen one morning.
Could the Grand Canyon ever actually be in danger?
Rising from her seat on the couch, Brenda walked across
     the Grand Canyon and knelt down in front of the man
     who held her heart in his hands.
I've never been to the Grand Canyon, and she's paying
     for everything.
If I was the Grand Canyon I'd echo everything you say.

~Dig Chase 2006


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GS5: Coyote

You Can Install The Demo Version Of Coyote

the coyote is not native to ohio
coyote helped her through a wrenching divorce
holy coyote is four musicians
coyote's name derives from the aztec
we have gotten a little slower start to coyote
     season this year
it is also quite common in some areas to see calves
     bobtailed by coyote
to stumble upon the well-hidden lair of the elusive
     coyote is not by accident
blue coyote laughing

coyote is probably best remembered as the government scientist
imitate coyote cries and those of the other animals
senator wile e. coyote a terribly troubling letter
if coyote pups are born on april 15, and they start
     hunting 10 weeks later
the highly adaptable coyote is flourishing in populated areas
these coyote stories were set down by mourning dove

~Dig Chase 2006

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GS4: Sedona

It Was Actually The Sedona Method

yesterday, i spent the day in sedona
i'm writing to you from beautiful sedona
in the lovely setting of sedona, you can hike,
     visit the vortices, and nurture
the chapel of the holy cross, sedona, arizona
we're in sedona, sitting on top of a canyon,
     and watching the red rocks glow
i'll be at the well red coyote in sedona
a blue-haired grandmother at the chamber of commerce
     gave us a photocopied map of sedona
the new sedona waves the safety flag

sedona isn’t just one "place"
sedona is the new member in our family
check out the return policy before you buy sedona
sedona arizona called our number, and we came running
and then make our way to the power spots of sedona
     and perhaps a return
but going to sedona just heightens the experience

~Dig Chase 2006

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GS3: Hopi

Hopi

What did the Hopi prophets see ten centuries ago
     that could be so relevant to humankind today?
And the Hopi prophets said to the people we must
     keep moving upward.
What Kind of Homes Do Hopi Live In?
The Hopi are one of the Puebloan cultures that
     have inhabited the Southwest.
Growing corn is a very important part of Hopi life.
Journey back almost 1000 years to the dusty desert
     home of the Hopi Indians.
For that reason, I think it’s useful to look at things
     like the Hopi Blue Star Prophecies.
In the religion of the Hopi, the Kachinas are supernatural
     spirits who live in the San Francisco Peaks.

I am White Feather, a Hopi of the ancient Bear Clan.
I might be ready to try to create a new Hopi voice.
The Hopi and Mayan cultures of antiquity provide
     modern-day road maps for walking.
Hopi prophecy states that World War III will be
     started by the people who first received the Light.
The Hopi play a key role in the survival of the human race.
Hopi woman takes seed from blue corn for next year's crop.

~Dig Chase 2006

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GS2: Navajo

Navajo

Navajo legend tells us that the Dineh had to pass through
     three different worlds.
The traditional Navajo way contains no concept for religion
     as a sphere of activity.
The sand painting has been used for centuries in Navajo
     religious rituals.
At first, I wondered why the Navajo youth didn't learn
     their language.
This was the question that First Navajo Man and First
     Navajo Woman had to answer.
The Navajo tribe has been fighting against uranium mining
     for a long time.
A fine-quality Navajo rug includes both a tight weave and
     an intricate design.
Navajo shepherds and a veterinary scientist teamed up to
     help a rare breed of desert sheep.

Because the canyon is still home to Navajo families, its
     floor can only be visited.
As an abstract artist, my inspirations come mostly from
     the Navajo female.
The unique creations of Spotted Antelope Designs are
     handmade by Navajo.
Navajo philosophy, spirituality, and sheep are intertwined
     like wool in the strongest weaving.
It was not hard for me because of all my childhood
     teaching on Navajo culture.
Running Foot spoke only in his melodic Navajo tongue.

~Dig Chase 2006


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GS1: Katmandu

Katmandu

For the furry comic book, see Katmandu.
Originally ruled by the Newars, Katmandu became independent
In the streets of Katmandu, the Israelis conduct themselves like model tourists.
Katmandu is a kind of high-altitude Casablanca.
The Kumari house in Katmandu is the home of the living goddess.
I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to.
As we sat in the traffic of Katmandu,
I was the only one to cross the border, heading straight to Katmandu.

Katmandu is a multiple-exposure photomicrograph:
Latest arrow From Katmandu;
Sufi Mystics in Katmandu;
Colored Chalk Powder Seller in Katmandu.
Imagine jet-setting to the Himalayan metropolis of Katmandu;
Travel around Katmandu for any length of time, and you'll run into a cow aimlessly.

~Dig Chase 2006


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