Santa Fe. We arrived in Santa Fe about 4:30 today. I woke up about 4am and couldn’t get back to sleep, the result, I am sure, of my experiences of the previous day. The best part of today happened right away. Donna Frank of “A Shared Blanket” is a woman I first met 3 years ago traveling through Durango with Sue. She showed some interest in my pow wow photos and asked me to send her one. She sold it very soon, I emailed her several times asking if she wanted more but I never heard from her again. I walked into her shop this morning and she acted as though I had just been there a few months ago. She remembered my stuff well, in fact she said she sold the one image to the director of homeland security and it is now hanging in a hall in Washington. She wondered why I hadn’t sent her more stuff. You might deduce from this that she is a little flaky, at least I did. She is a very dramatic, highly successful (and somewhat flaky) wholesaler of Indian art. She bought one of my canvas images and ordered three more. I don’t want to get too excited but things seem to be working well. Watch out Ray, I might be a salesman after all.

Items:

• When traversing the Valley of the Gods, we observed many dangling rocks, I suggested that maybe someday I will come here and hang out for about five years hoping to shoot one of them falling. Chuck thought we could maybe pry one loose, but we decided against it, as we would then be perpetrators of a premature ejection in getting our rock off.
  
  
• Chuck suggested that his memory lapses are not due to anything like predementia but that his mind is actually breaking through into a new dimension.

More marketing tomorrow. Jon