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Tayo Basquiat
Dec 83 min read
Deep Reading 2025
I return to the blog this week to issue an invitation: join me in the practice of deep reading for 2025. Consider participating in the...
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Tayo Basquiat
Nov 67 min read
How Now Brown Cow?
A brown cow was a nickname for a barrel of beer, specifically in the early 18th century in Scotland. “How now brown cow” was a way of...
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Tayo Basquiat
Oct 243 min read
Cibola Search and Rescue
If you haven't guessed from my vague mentions about training activities, I'm now ready to announce that I'm now a member of Cibola Search...
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Tayo Basquiat
Oct 166 min read
Death To-Do
Unrelated and unimportant: check out this pile of bird doo-doo. I'm weirdly impressed that it keeps adding to that spot, as if working...
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Tayo Basquiat
Oct 22 min read
Which story would you choose?
Some eye candy, dessert before the meat of the post: Buddy and I kicked off October with a hike of La Luz trail in the Sandia Mountains....
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Tayo Basquiat
Sep 254 min read
The Chainsaw - Gender Equation
It's tarantula migration season here in New Mexico. They are on the move, searching for mates. My dog announces their passage through the...
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Tayo Basquiat
Sep 185 min read
Expectations vs. Training
I’ve been thinking about a quote making the rounds in podcasts and Navy SEAL memoirs, something I first heard from Jocko Willink, I...
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Tayo Basquiat
Sep 117 min read
The History of the World!
I don't have kids. I didn't get married. I didn't build a business or establish some sort of legacy. I haven't done jack, really. True,...
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Tayo Basquiat
Sep 45 min read
I Have Hornworms
I should say, my tomatoes have hornworms. This was the first year here in the desert I’ve successfully brought tomatoes from seed to...
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Tayo Basquiat
Aug 282 min read
By the Numbers
Truly excellent sunrise this morning, though since my iCloud storage is full and I'm too cheap to pay for more storage, this photo is...
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Tayo Basquiat
Aug 212 min read
A Bit of Trail Magic
I was riding my bicycle home from the gym when I saw a kid squatting in front of a BMX lying on its side in the middle of the asphalt...
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Tayo Basquiat
Aug 144 min read
The Rich Life
If you suddenly fell into unlimited wealth, what would you do with that money to live your version of “the rich life”? Let’s have this be...
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Tayo Basquiat
Aug 75 min read
What does it all mean?
As the calendar opens to August, this is the first year in long memory that I’m not preparing for the opening of the Fall academic...
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Tayo Basquiat
Aug 12 min read
Solar Quintessence anyone?
I’ve resumed a daily habit of reading through a dictionary page or two looking for new-to-me words and ideas and copying the best of them...
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Tayo Basquiat
Jul 244 min read
Attention is the mother of intelligence
I often poke fun at myself for always being one question short: even if I managed to ask a series of really good questions, I'll somehow...
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Tayo Basquiat
Jul 173 min read
From what has your bad luck saved you?
I am rather fond of this photograph from the batch I made this past week, but it has nothing to do with what I'm about to share. Buddy...
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Tayo Basquiat
Jul 101 min read
Shhhh ...
Wix has a new A.I. brainstorm feature that appears with the blank page for blog posts now. Trying to help me, I guess, the bot suggested...
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Tayo Basquiat
Jul 35 min read
The Monster Returns
North Dakota’s northeast corner where I grew up is a pocket of old school Christian pietism, and I remember hearing that I should never...
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Tayo Basquiat
Jun 264 min read
Friend and Foe
Last September I enrolled in a NOLS Wilderness First Responder class held at Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge in Albuquerque’s South...
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Tayo Basquiat
Jun 192 min read
Rewilding
Now that I live in the state that's home to the Aldo Leopold Wilderness, I revisited his famous A Sand County Almanac (which is not a...
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