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Foothills of Space Creative Workshop

If our only purpose is to perceive, contemplate, and emerge through creative acts, we do well.

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foscw.net is the portal of David Nelson Blair.

David is a lifelong learner who enjoys simple disciplines, skeptical inquiry, and creativity. He explores science, public affairs, history, philosophy, music, and especially visual arts. Oil painting has been his leading avocation since 2022.

David treasures time with loved ones and friends and communes with on-line spirits through these platforms:

   

Flickr: David's principal sharing site reflects his half-century passion for photography and burgeoning interests in traditional visual arts and music.

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Manzano Mesa Rainbook: David has recorded the rain in his back garden since May 2005 and likes to remind his neighbors that they get, on average, 30 percent more precipitation than the National Weather Service site at the Albuquerque Sunport seven miles away.

Rainbook

David is author of Fear the Condor (New York: Lodestar, 1992) and The Land and People of Bolivia (New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1990). He holds an Master of Arts in history from Lehigh University and a Bachlor of Arts in journalism from Kent State University. From 1976 to 2019, he worked as a wordsmith. New Mexico became home in 1997.