The Fezziwig News by Stu Jenks

"Scipio Sinclair"

"Scipio Sinclair, Utah" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

"Monument Valley Road, Utah"

"Monument Valley Road, Utah" (c) Stu Jenks 2012

As seen in numerous automobile commercials, the iconic U.S. Highway 163.

This one goes out to William Todd-Jones. Sorry I missed you when you were in The States. Next time.

"Sipapu Bridge"

"Sipapu Bridge, Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah" (c) 2012 Stu Jenks

Now available, on the Apple IPad: The Transpersonal Papers (1861-2010) and Bozo In Love

Been a long time coming for The Transpersonal Papers (1861-2010).

Three editors, two proofreaders, two designers, four printers, and hours, days, weeks, months, years, lifetimes, (I know I'm overstating), of writing, traveling, shooting, editing, remembering, hiking, and more writing, shooting, and editing, but I'm not complaining. No, no, no.

And apologies for not having the dough right now, to print The Transpersonal Papers as a coffee-table book as I had originally planned. ($10,000, it would have cost. Maybe someday.) But you now can buy it, for $14.95, as an Ebook on the Apple IPad, and I expect it to be available within a couple days on the Nook and the Kindle as well.

I just looked at it on my new IPad. The photos, text and design look grand.

And as an extra surprise, Bozo In Love is now up on IBooks too, ($9.95), as well as the rest of my catalog: Flame Spirals, Hoop Dancing, and Dementia Blues, on IBooks, Nook and Kindle.

Just in time for Christmas.

And don't worry. All but The Transpersonal Papers can still be bought as a book book through Fezziwig Press. I have plenty. Just go to www.fezziwigpressonline.com, for the hardbounds and paperbacks, but go to ITunes, today, (and Kindle and Nook, soon) for the ebooks.

Heavy sigh from my third story apartment balcony. I look out onto the Tucson city lights in the valley below. Cold, dry air embraces me. I inhale deeply. Exhale.

A very good night in the desert.

Think I'll make a cup of coffee with egg nog and play some Angry Birds on my new IPad.

Time to celebrate.

 

"Mormon Tea"

"Mormon Tea, Utah" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

Download Love and War by Neil Young

Love and War by Neil Young

 

"Fry Canyon, Utah"

"Fry Canyon, Utah" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks.

(Thanks again, to all who came down to the Tucson Open Studios, over the weekend. And prayers to those in North Carolina in the aftermath of the tornados, and to my sister who is getting a biopsy today for her returning cancer.)

"The Spirals Truck"

"The Spirals Truck, Utah" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

I'm off to California for about a week: A couple days in Los Angeles, doing some book work and such, a couple days in San Francsico, seeing the Belgian choir Scala, and a couple days on the road doing research for the next book, namely visiting the railroad stations in San Bernardino, Bakersfield, perhaps the depots in Fresno and Emeryville, and for sure, marveling at The Tehachapi Loop.

Important: If you order any books or prints from Fezziwig Press, I'll ship them upon my return to Tucson.

And thanks, y'all, for your continued prayers for my mother Mary. And put my sister Pamela in your thoughts as well. She's having serious complications from her breast cancer surgery from a couple years ago.

Love and light,

Stu and The Spirals Truck

"Calf Creek Blue" (No Fiddling)

"Calf Creek Blue, Utah" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

[No photoshop fiddling was done to this photograph. The creek was this color blue. It was stunning, that afternoon.]

Cherokee Girl by Charles de Lint: The Music Video

 

[First things first: click on the little square-four-arrow-cluster at the lower right hand corner of the video to make it full screen]

Cherokee Girl by Charles de Lint
Produced & directed by Brock Zeman

Original song by author Charles de Lint about the mix of cultures, myth and how all of us are connected to each other and this world in which we find ourselves. Features a brief cameo by Terri Windling, the Cherokee Girl for whom the song was written. Scenes from Tucson filmed by de Lint and his wife, MaryAnn Harris. Horseshoe Canyon footage by Stu Jenks. For more info: www.charlesdelint.com

[From Stu: I have great friends. Glad the video I shot at Horseshoe Canyon came to such good use. Wonderful place, Horseshoe Canyon; wonderful people, Charles, Terri and MaryAnn; wonderful song, Cherokee Girl.]

Mormon Tea: A Novel

"Mormon Tea, Utah" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks

[Teaser: Morman Tea plays a role in the novel I'm writing. Under advice of other authors who are really go at this, I best say little else about the book, besides I'm enjoying the heck out of writing fiction. Hope to have the novel done by the end of the year, and in ebook and book book form soon after.]