Another “thank you” Eric; I appreciate your gentle photographic reminders of worlds I’ve lived in but not recently. Custodial situation has kept me tied – and for another few years it will. I don’t mind LA, but it is far far from the sensations that come of Mother Earth in her more untamperedwith forms. I miss her – but now, (after reading your mini bio about home in Kingston) not so much (in the sense of now feeling closer to her again from the sharing of your story.)
You’ve told your story before, but today I felt it.
And I can almost smell the snow in your pic. Nice.
Thanks Eric, you are so generous in your writing, in every way. I love the idea of choosing where you live based on where you are drawn to the land. I have always been very practical about where I live – close-ish to work, close to the kids’ schools, close-ish to parents, where we could afford, etc. I don’t know where I’d even start to look if I took such a wonderfully broad approach. It sounds like it has been a really inspirational decision for you. Thank you as always for your work!
This reminds me a little bit of downtown Flagstaff where I live now. We may be looking for a place like that to live in New York state if my husband can get a job as an elementary teacher. The school district here is laying off teachers due to a state budget shortfall. This picture looks like a small town….I need a small town with a university (the education levels of the population are higher) with clean air, low crime, nice, friendly people, and four seasons. Lots of free educationsl stuff for my homeschooled kids would also be nice. We would have to fly under the radar though; the states back east have restrictive (read government interference) homeschooling laws; Arizona doesn’t even require state mandated testing for homeschoolers so I have been spoiled.
And Mr. E, you may know this, but the Hudson River Valley also has areas of lower specific gravity than the rest of the East Coast. This is said to be due in part to the Laurentide ice sheet which created the valley. I don’t entirely understand the isophysics involved, but that data is part of an interesting theory that has been circulating for the last year or so. Apparently there have been more gravitational anomalies spring up around the planet in the last few years (possibly traceable to polar cap melt-off).
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UMMMM…Mys….gee whiz. I did not know that, but I am aware of the ancient glacial activity by feeling, by some reading, and by touring the Grandmother Land — that creek, the Coxing, seems to be the remnant of a wild river that was for glacial runoff. There are places where based on the shape of the rocks and the ground, it could have been 10 times wider in the past….xef
It’s a great place to live, if you can set aside the Catholic school mentality, and work around the fact that that nearly all the young energy is either teen, pre-teen or living in New York City. Still, with some finesse and patience, it’s a fun place. And set amidst all those cute little stores (and many empty store fronts) is Blue Studio in all its understated naked glory.
I discovered the Hudson Valley in the form of New Paltz upon meeting and subsequently falling in love with a little Leo deadhead named Kirsten Glazer in the spring of 1989. I came here as a grade student in the fall of ’89 and lived around the local region for the next nine years, then began a decade of travel and living in various cities from the West Coast usa to England to Germany, France, and Belgium.
When I needed to come home, I felt where I was drawn by the land, and that was here. That stone circle fireplace on the Grandmother Land (I’ll post a photo later) marks the exact spot that called me back home.
The Hudson Valley also happened to be the place that felt the easiest to get re-established as an American after nearly four years in Europe. I’ve been writing in the horoscope in the local arts magazine, Chronogram, since 1996, so in some respects I never really left. I have some friends here and a lot of goodwill from sending out love notes in the form of about 200 consecutive months of monthly horoscopes and essays. Chelsea found me an apartment on Craig’s List; Nissan sold me a car; I started building a creative team in the area…and now I am here.
I’m making it sound a little easier than it was. But it’s been worth the effort.
I want to live there! xx
You are so fortunate – what a delightful view. Can you tell us about the shops along this little stretch of road. How did you come to live and work in Kingston?
Looks like downstate to me… We got 3-4 feet east of Lake Ontario !
Another “thank you” Eric; I appreciate your gentle photographic reminders of worlds I’ve lived in but not recently. Custodial situation has kept me tied – and for another few years it will. I don’t mind LA, but it is far far from the sensations that come of Mother Earth in her more untamperedwith forms. I miss her – but now, (after reading your mini bio about home in Kingston) not so much (in the sense of now feeling closer to her again from the sharing of your story.)
You’ve told your story before, but today I felt it.
And I can almost smell the snow in your pic. Nice.
Thanks Eric, you are so generous in your writing, in every way. I love the idea of choosing where you live based on where you are drawn to the land. I have always been very practical about where I live – close-ish to work, close to the kids’ schools, close-ish to parents, where we could afford, etc. I don’t know where I’d even start to look if I took such a wonderfully broad approach. It sounds like it has been a really inspirational decision for you. Thank you as always for your work!
This reminds me a little bit of downtown Flagstaff where I live now. We may be looking for a place like that to live in New York state if my husband can get a job as an elementary teacher. The school district here is laying off teachers due to a state budget shortfall. This picture looks like a small town….I need a small town with a university (the education levels of the population are higher) with clean air, low crime, nice, friendly people, and four seasons. Lots of free educationsl stuff for my homeschooled kids would also be nice. We would have to fly under the radar though; the states back east have restrictive (read government interference) homeschooling laws; Arizona doesn’t even require state mandated testing for homeschoolers so I have been spoiled.
And Mr. E, you may know this, but the Hudson River Valley also has areas of lower specific gravity than the rest of the East Coast. This is said to be due in part to the Laurentide ice sheet which created the valley. I don’t entirely understand the isophysics involved, but that data is part of an interesting theory that has been circulating for the last year or so. Apparently there have been more gravitational anomalies spring up around the planet in the last few years (possibly traceable to polar cap melt-off).
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UMMMM…Mys….gee whiz. I did not know that, but I am aware of the ancient glacial activity by feeling, by some reading, and by touring the Grandmother Land — that creek, the Coxing, seems to be the remnant of a wild river that was for glacial runoff. There are places where based on the shape of the rocks and the ground, it could have been 10 times wider in the past….xef
It’s a great place to live, if you can set aside the Catholic school mentality, and work around the fact that that nearly all the young energy is either teen, pre-teen or living in New York City. Still, with some finesse and patience, it’s a fun place. And set amidst all those cute little stores (and many empty store fronts) is Blue Studio in all its understated naked glory.
I discovered the Hudson Valley in the form of New Paltz upon meeting and subsequently falling in love with a little Leo deadhead named Kirsten Glazer in the spring of 1989. I came here as a grade student in the fall of ’89 and lived around the local region for the next nine years, then began a decade of travel and living in various cities from the West Coast usa to England to Germany, France, and Belgium.
When I needed to come home, I felt where I was drawn by the land, and that was here. That stone circle fireplace on the Grandmother Land (I’ll post a photo later) marks the exact spot that called me back home.
The Hudson Valley also happened to be the place that felt the easiest to get re-established as an American after nearly four years in Europe. I’ve been writing in the horoscope in the local arts magazine, Chronogram, since 1996, so in some respects I never really left. I have some friends here and a lot of goodwill from sending out love notes in the form of about 200 consecutive months of monthly horoscopes and essays. Chelsea found me an apartment on Craig’s List; Nissan sold me a car; I started building a creative team in the area…and now I am here.
I’m making it sound a little easier than it was. But it’s been worth the effort.
I want to live there! xx
You are so fortunate – what a delightful view. Can you tell us about the shops along this little stretch of road. How did you come to live and work in Kingston?
Looks like downstate to me… We got 3-4 feet east of Lake Ontario !
cozy.. 🙂