{"id":10013,"date":"2014-09-10T21:09:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=10013"},"modified":"2014-09-11T21:43:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T04:43:19","slug":"like-no-place-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2014\/09\/10\/like-no-place-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Like No Place on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"At-Peets-Studio\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here we are at the Peets’. The whole second floor of the building behind is our studio for the week. (A place like no other.)<\/h6>\n

It occurs to me that it’s in the year that my father died, and my mother just before that, that I am called back to Wyoming.<\/p>\n

I’ve mentioned that I have this heritage, if only through my parents\u00a0having grown\u00a0up here, meeting and marrying and moving away before I was born. But it was to Wyoming we returned for family reunions on the Moore side. It was then that I saw the bigness of the land, the bigness of the people I was related to, and the setting for all their stories. I was claimed by\u00a0Wyoming as my true earthen soul.<\/p>\n

California, I love you, and to you will be true, but there’s something deep here; I’ve sensed it for a long time, though my adulthood visits have been next to nil. Until now.<\/p>\n

It started\u00a0when an acquaintance of mine, Marty Peet, someone I only knew because she’d seen my story on TV some years back, contacted me for more copies of the video, then DVD, to share with friends.* Once, as time went by, she offhandedly asked, \u201cWhen are you going to come to Wyoming and put on one of your workshops?\u201d I answered just as offhandedly, \u201cWhen are you going to invite me?\u201d<\/p>\n

And here we are, some six months later, in the middle of a workshop for her and seven others\u00a0in Jackson Hole. That’s for two days. More, we are week-long guests of the Peets in private quarters on their 70-acre spread straddling the Hoback River. More yet, we have the use of her personal and spacious studio above husband Charlie’s workshop. We’re doing what we love to do on these trips, get to know a\u00a0new place, and concentrate on making art.<\/p>\n

The results of all this will be featured on a future Blank Canvas<\/em>, the monthly art blog. For now it’s just an update on yet another example of the abundant hospitality we’ve received this trip, and the special meaning of this particular destination.<\/p>\n

As the tourist brochure claims, it’s \u201cWyoming: Like no place on earth.\u201d Certainly it’s so for me.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Dad. Thanks, Mom. My roots are in your soil.<\/p>\n

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\n*That was before I got permission to make it available right here on the website . . . see above under Videos<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s like coming home, even if I’ve never lived here. It’s a tapping into deeper roots. And the timing seems of God.
\n(BTW, some have had trouble opening these. If so, do let me know.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10013"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10034,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions\/10034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}