It’s There if You Know Where to Look

It’s There if You Know Where to Look

“To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.” Kathleen Norris Dakota: A Spiritual Geography North and South Dakota are full of places where the people have moved on, but the...
Why Being a Morning Person Rocks

Why Being a Morning Person Rocks

“It gives me great pleasure to rise before dawn and set out on a remote, empty trail or road to a seductive place. Ellen Meloy The Last Cheater’s Waltz And it’s all the better if you make it there in time for...
The Long Brown Land

The Long Brown Land

None other than this long brown land lays such a hold on the affections. The rainbow hills, the tender bluish mists, the luminous radiance of the spring, have the lotus charm. They trick the sense of time, so that once inhabiting there you always mean to go away...
Endless Discovery

Endless Discovery

There will always be something new to discover: a minute moss never found before, a rabbit eating birdseed with the bores on a hungry November day, a bittern that stays only long enough to be remembered. Ann Haymond Zwinger I spent a lot of time in the American desert...