castleton tower has a pulse. for those of us living in the valley, what we have intuited has been confirmed. castlerock is alive. let's take this next few minutes and i just want us to listen to the pulse of earth. castleton tower. the earth has a pulse. as do we. no separation. our pulse, the pulse of earth, castleton tower is relational. born out of love and grief, disturbance and stillness at once. there are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth, nicha. to commit to a place is to commit to the shadow side of our own home ground. sometimes we see it. sometimes we don't. but when we do we must speak. on december 28, 2016, barack obama established a national monument protecting 1.3 million acres of fragile desert lands. he heard the voices of the navajo e. the hoppe, the mountain yute, the zuni nations. he heard them. these lands are sacred. where their prayers are spoken. where their ancestors are buried. where flair ceremonies are performed. it was a handshake across history. a renewal, a commitment, o