We also want to thank the publishers for bringing craig to us and we also want to thank inaudible at the book table at the end of the program. Craig childs is a commentator for National Public radios morning edition. He has written noert new york times, the Los Angeles Times and several magazines. His work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. The book, house of rain, is craigs latest book. Please help me welcome craig childs. Hello. I come to you from out of the desert. Im coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where everything is hinged to a story, every drop of rain leaving a dimple in the ground. Stories are everywhere out in this landscape. When you walk down into the bottom of the Narrow Canyons made of sandstone and you put your hands on the sand stone faces and the smooth shallow scallops that look like champagne glasses, you c
Where we needed to stand at what time, or perhaps it was a woman, it was someone who came up and checked this site every day until he sent out the word saying, okay, on this particular day you can put on your feathers and everybody get your stuff, were going up and its going to happen. Because as the moon was rising i could see he was nervous, pacing back and forth because he wasnt sure if he was exactly right. You use spherical trigonometry to figure it out and he was pacing back and forth and i could see he was going through his numbers going, okay, a lot of people came for this, am i right about this . And i thought about these fiercelooking mayan dudes who came out of chaco and the great house, the tree rings taken out of it, show it was constructed every 18. 6 years. Every time the moon came through the gab, they did massive construction for it. So you know it was the time and you know there was somebody pacing up there just checking whatever watch he had, looking at that gap and
Good evening and welcome to the San Francisco public library. Im joan jasper, im with the department of public exhibitions here at the library. Thank you so much for coming to our exhibition tonight with author craig childs. Hes been jet setting all over the country promoting his new book, the house of rain. We also want to thank the publishers for bringing craig to us and we also want to thank inaudible at the book table at the end of the program. Craig childs is a commentator for National Public radios morning edition. He has written noert new york times, the Los Angeles Times and several magazines. His work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. The book, house of rain, is craigs latest book. Please help me welcome craig childs. Hello. I come to you from out of the desert. Im coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where everything is
applause . Good evening and welcome to the San Francisco public library. Im joan jasper, im with the department of public exhibitions here at the library. Thank you so much for coming to our exhibition tonight with author craig childs. Hes been jet setting all over the country promoting his new book, the house of rain. We also want to thank the publishers for bringing craig to us and we also want to thank inaudible at the book table at the end of the program. Craig childs is a commentator for National Public radios morning edition. He has written noert new york times, the Los Angeles Times and several magazines. His work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. The book, house of rain, is craigs latest book. Please help me welcome craig childs. Hello. I come to you from out of the desert. Im coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where ev
Cliffs, in the dunes where you want to go there but theres not a route from here to there. If you had a gps it wouldnt really work because it would point a Straight Line from here to there because theres a cliff face and to get down you have to go down a series of ledges and to get up you have to go down a Narrow Canyon where theres a big boulder jammed into the bottom. Every place has this backward trail, this labyrinth, leading you around. I was walking arpd this maze for about an hour before coming here and it does the same kind of thing where your mind settles, where you have to Pay Attention to where you are going. Because if you look up for too long at all the passing architecture, you will forget where you are on the maze. You will end up in the wrong spot. You will end up going the wrong direction and you wont be able to find your way to the center. Of course, out in the desert, you cant just walk off of the maze and out the front door and back into the street. Out in the deser