This weekend I:

• Met Kathleen Clarke, director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, watched her pick up trash for the camera and then sneeze like someone allergic to the environment. (She was here for a local clean up in conjunction with National Public Lands Day, but ironically spent most of her visit in an air conditioned SUV).

• Watched Born into Brothels, which I thought would be incredibly sad, and it was but it was also funny and hopeful and refreshing

• Went to a gathering for Hawaii people in Farmington. There's a whole dozen of us apparently. We ate Spam musubis, commiserated about how cold it gets in the winter and shared our disbelief about how hard it is to get a Steinlager here.