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Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM

Sepia sunrise, Rockhound State Park, Deming NM, February 17, 2008
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

From Knowledge to Wisdom

Wisdom is a product of a process. This process begins with information, proceeds through knowledge, and through what a less gifted poet, Edgar Guest, called "a heap of living," ends in wisdom.

... Wisdom, when it comes, usually arrives late in life. I've known some people who were wise in their early thirties and others who died old without a clue. Most philosophers were of the mind that a person should be at least forty years of age to have enough learning experiences. Now it seems that it is much too young. The step from knowledge to wisdom is the longest one in a person's life.

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