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Good evening and welcome to the San Francisco public library. Im joan jasper, im with the department of public exhibitions here at the library. Thank you so much for coming to our exhibition tonight with author craig childs. Hes been jet setting all over the country promoting his new book, the house of rain. We also want to thank the publishers for bringing craig to us and we also want to thank inaudible at the book table at the end of the program. Craig childs is a commentator for National Public radios morning edition. He has written noert new york times, the Los Angeles Times and several ma...

A carved stone bowl with a carved stone lid set into it. And he opened it up and it was full of pieces of turquoise and thats when he looked around and thought, wait a minute, theres something going on around here. He started mapping them all, he started marking them all on his map until he realized, these are all visual relays. Theres a network, a communication network, of some sort. Or maybe it was when the moon reached the gap they lit the fire so the signal went out so everybody across the Colorado Plateau would know the needle has been threaded. And i imagine that day people in chaco cany...

Cliffs, in the dunes where you want to go there but theres not a route from here to there. If you had a gps it wouldnt really work because it would point a Straight Line from here to there because theres a cliff face and to get down you have to go down a series of ledges and to get up you have to go down a Narrow Canyon where theres a big boulder jammed into the bottom. Every place has this backward trail, this labyrinth, leading you around. I was walking arpd this maze for about an hour before coming here and it does the same kind of thing where your mind settles, where you have to Pay Attent...

About a size 9 foot walking across the desert 8 years before you. Everything out there tells a story. Thats why im here. Because im looking for stories. Im looking for these same kinds of stories that i find in the desert. I came to hear straight from Grace Cathedral today where i walked into the cathedral and i took off my shoes and walked on the maze thats right in the front, in the center. And i dont know if youve ever been to this place. You have to stop in and walk this maze because it is very much like what its like to be out in the desert. Where you start walking along and you see where...

Sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where everything is hinged to a story, every drop of rain leaving a dimple in the ground. Stories are everywhere out in this landscape. When you walk down into the bottom of the Narrow Canyons made of sandstone and you put your hands on the sand stone faces and the smooth shallow scallops that look like champagne glasses, you can feel the shape of the last flood that came through. Every place in the desert is a story. Every place is a passage way. Its really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are ...