Vaughn, NM

I've found that the smaller towns have as much to offer architecturally as the larger cities. I was in eastern/central NM this last week on business. The following three pix are from Taiban, and Vaughn. This downtown area of Vaughn isn't even visible from the street. In ten years it'll probably be a mound of rubble, and no one cares to save it. No one has the money to save it. We are a sad lot.

Rachel Dunlap

“There’ll come a time, everyone you know will say goodbye…”

-Minipop

A friend of mine once said that life is a series of paths that converge and diverge.  I was talking about people I had known that I wasn’t in contact with anymore. A few didn’t matter; a few more I missed. I didn’t even know where they were. I could track them down, but then what? It had been 15 years. You want everything to be like it was – you want to pick up where you left off. You remember them the way they were back then: young, totally crazy.  But a lot changes in 15 years.  Maybe everything.

 

Rachel, I don’t know what I would’ve said to you if I had been able to see you again.  I don’t know that we would’ve had anything to talk about.  But for what it’s worth, I found myself thinking about you every now and again these last 20 years, and every time I did, it was with much fondness, and the curiosity: I wonder what she’s doing now?  These paths of ours diverged early on – Jesus, our ages then were less than the time that’s gone by since – but the moment they crossed always meant something to me.