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Day 4: Poet’s Road Trip: Borderlands and High Desert

 
 

I’d been told earlier about how El Paso was a “unique” situation being such a border town. I didn’t realize just how much that was true until I drove through downtown in the morning light. It’s right there. There’s Mexico. You have El Paso’s high rise downtown district next to its sister city, staring at [...]

D4: Poet’s Recession Road Trip: Arcosanti, Yesterday’s Tomorrow, and Lesbian Theology

There’s an old saying that comes to mind, about how nothing dates faster than one’s vision of the future. That seems true for Arcosanti. Though it manages to feel classic, new, and stuck in the 70s all at the same time. The master plan (there have been many) has a city built on a grand [...]