Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM
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Sepia sunrise, Rockhound State Park, Deming NM, February 17, 2008
Tomorrow I'm moving to City of Rocks State Park
New Mexico State Parks limit ones stay to 3 weeks at which time one must leave the park for 6 nights before returning. But I don't plan to return to Rockhound on this trip. Later in the month I'll be visiting friends in Las Vegas so it's time to start drifting westward again. So I'll spend a few days at City of Rocks State Park, a few miles north of Deming, New Mexico, and then move on.
Night camp
Site 28 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - good signal
- Find other references to Rockhound on this website
- List the nights I've camped here
- Go to the Rockhound State Park website
- Get a Google map of this area
- Check the weather here
Life is to be Lived, Not Controlled
No indeed, the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me. I lived a public life and attempted to function under the assumption that the world was solid and all the relationships therein. Now I know men are different and that all life is divided and that only in division is there true health. Hence again I have stayed in my hole, because up above there's an increasing passion to make men conform to a pattern.
.... Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway? - diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states. Why, if they follow this conformity business they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive toward colorlessness? But seriously, and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that were to happen. .....Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.