We're in the process of moving to Las Vegas, and I'm cleaning out my studio which, as nearly everyone knows, occupies a single shelf in our laundry room, sandwiched between the water heater and our surfboards. Looking through an old journal, I found this list from Max Ernst, from his Ecritures, Paris, 1970, copied in my own handwriting, with the phrase READ ME scrawled across the top of the page:

"human heads, animals, a battle which ends with a kiss (the bride of the wind), rocks, the sea and the rain, earthquakes, the sphinx in her stable, little tables around the earth, Caesar's palette, false positions, a fabric woven of hoarfrost, the pampas, whippings, strings of lava, fields of honor, scarecrows, the fall of the chestnut tree".

Later in the same journal, I wrote this:

Green Bay, WI
Orting, WA
Nashville, TN
Puyallup
Pendelton, OR
Hawk's Prairie, WA
Port Angeles
Seattle
Honolulu
Albuquerque
Yelm, WA