re: Santa Fe NM

Friend,

Uncle once took me and cousins to Sante Fe. While the city nor the food impressed me, I can strongly recommend a day trip to Los Alamos and the Bandelier National Monument. The scenery and canyons are breathtaking. Standing in that desert land was the first time I ever truly heard silence. Occasionally I will get reminders of that silence while seated alone late at night in an empty Episcopal chapel, but even there, the silence is never complete as it was in those canyons, where even the slightest move of the foot creates what seems, relatively, to be the loudest of noises. It is the contrast of any noise to that pure silence that makes even soft noises seem loud. I do hope you enjoy your trip, and perhaps, next time, I could join you.

Yours,
TulaneLSU