Dan Flores

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4,468 appearances 23 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 18 Aug

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Gunfighters · Ep. 40: Becoming Natives of Place in the American West | The American West · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

and the canids and cats that go with them. voice-verified

My thermostat may be turned a few degrees more towards nature romance than most, but I do experience a form of bliss stepping out my door into landscapes restored to natural. voice-verified

Maybe inspired by Thoreau or simply by being on the scene and observing the miracle of change, I follow the progressions of the seasons and the timing of migrations. voice-verified

I note when leaves and flowers appear and recede, when certain birds arrive or leave. voice-verified

I've had the thrill of lying on my bed beneath a skylight cranked open to the morning and listening to elk bugle. voice-verified

and at night hearing the howl of wolves returning to the west for the first time in my lifetime. voice-verified

I regularly hear the scream of red-tailed hawks soaring overhead and glimpse coyotes trotting by my windows with a sharp, quick-eyed look. voice-verified

My nights are brilliant with jittering stars, the steady glow of traveler planets, and the occasional light that flies. voice-verified

Living out, I pretty much always know the location of the moon and the stage it's in. voice-verified

and where the planets are in their pursuit of one another through the ecliptic. voice-verified

I register the movements of sunrises and sunsets along the horizon from solstice to equinox to solstice. voice-verified

In fact, in all three of my Western places, I've laid out a rock circle with spokes marking the points on the horizon where the sun rises at solstices and equinoxes, an ancient analog chart voice-verified

of a repeating linkage between sun and earth. voice-verified

That kind of reveal of place through observed life, but also from knowing the history and science of my places gets me at least closer to a greatest story ever told narrative than any other way of knowing I've come across. voice-verified

Although we don't think of ourselves as such, we are, after all, just another species of animal out of our planet's evolutionary river. voice-verified

But we're an animal whose primary difference from the rest is that we have a shot at understanding who we are and maybe why place is so important to us. voice-verified

Yeah, it's a real thing, particularly, and I've seen it most visibly in two of the states that I've lived in, in the case of New Mexico, still live in, voice-verified

New Mexico and Montana seem to have that more than anywhere else. voice-verified

And New Mexico, I've always thought, okay, so, you know, asked a guy recently from the, you know, old Spanish colonization line. voice-verified

So how long has your family been in New Mexico? voice-verified

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