Oct 21, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min · 11 segments
"Ancient Hindu yoga was based on this realization of the meaning and power of the breath; and so also, in another sense, was astrology. Astrology was the means to relate the first moment of the…
I would say, so another thing that I didn't include in my little like autobiography there is that I also am a historian by training.
Um, and I work specifically in historic preservation, um, as my sort of like processional professional, that was a crazy Freudian slip, my processional self.
was funny.
No, that was legit
But anyway, my professional self, yeah, I am, I work in history, historic preservation, telling, and part of the reason why I am so, became so like devoted to uh to the southwest i mean i'm from i was born and raised in albuquerque new mexico and i live here in new mexico now um after 10 years away i mean it was sort of a it was sort of a thing where i had to like get away and then when i was 18 and then i came back um when i was 28 and it is such it's places embedded in all of us, obviously, whether we live in the place that we're born or whether we go away from it, there's like, if you, if you live where you were, your roots originally were, or if you leave them and have to settle yourself, have to make roots in a different place, Like place is like it contributes to everything for how we relate to the world, how we like move through our experiences in our lives.
But one of the reasons why I became so devoted to New Mexico and like just sharing the Southwest and just being having that be a part of my life.
um internet identity and my internet personality is because i was working in historic preservation and new mexico is so layered it's so incredible america is um as a continent is is really insane like any part of america is just It's so crazy.
And it's and it's yeah, because this like it became this like place, a container for deracinated people.
And like, I'm a wasp, you know, like people's identities were tied to the place from which they came or their ancestors, their recent ancestors came.
and we're not and like we've cut off the irish american like my heritage is is irish but i'm but i'm i'm an american and so like that is a that's a also a crazy thing to unpack but in new mexico specifically you have this layer of and and on you know on the east coast when where all of these sort of native cultures were um were wiped out due to uh being moved being like displaced um or wiped out through war and disease um things like that like there's the the presence is not the same as in New Mexico the presence of like the native culture but then you also have in New Mexico still the presence of the original settlers the Spanish settlers and so you have this like native culture Spanish settlements and then the Anglo when the Anglos moved west and turned New Mexico into a territory in the 1850s and then eventually ratified it as a state in the early 20th century.
I would say, so another thing that I didn't include in my little like autobiography there is that I also am a historian by training.
Um, and I work specifically in historic preservation, um, as my sort of like processional professional, that was a crazy Freudian slip, my processional self.
was funny.
No, that was legit
But anyway, my professional self, yeah, I am, I work in history, historic preservation, telling, and part of the reason why I am so, became so like devoted to uh to the southwest i mean i'm from i was born and raised in albuquerque new mexico and i live here in new mexico now um after 10 years away i mean it was sort of a it was sort of a thing where i had to like get away and then when i was 18 and then i came back um when i was 28 and it is such it's places embedded in all of us, obviously, whether we live in the place that we're born or whether we go away from it, there's like, if you, if you live where you were, your roots originally were, or if you leave them and have to settle yourself, have to make roots in a different place, Like place is like it contributes to everything for how we relate to the world, how we like move through our experiences in our lives.
But one of the reasons why I became so devoted to New Mexico and like just sharing the Southwest and just being having that be a part of my life.
um internet identity and my internet personality is because i was working in historic preservation and new mexico is so layered it's so incredible america is um as a continent is is really insane like any part of america is just It's so crazy.
And it's and it's yeah, because this like it became this like place, a container for deracinated people.
And like, I'm a wasp, you know, like people's identities were tied to the place from which they came or their ancestors, their recent ancestors came.
and we're not and like we've cut off the irish american like my heritage is is irish but i'm but i'm i'm an american and so like that is a that's a also a crazy thing to unpack but in new mexico specifically you have this layer of and and on you know on the east coast when where all of these sort of native cultures were um were wiped out due to uh being moved being like displaced um or wiped out through war and disease um things like that like there's the the presence is not the same as in New Mexico the presence of like the native culture but then you also have in New Mexico still the presence of the original settlers the Spanish settlers and so you have this like native culture Spanish settlements and then the Anglo when the Anglos moved west and turned New Mexico into a territory in the 1850s and then eventually ratified it as a state in the early 20th century.
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