Sounds and Reads

I don’t know of a neat conclusion beyond that. We came naked. We leave carrying none of it. Somewhere between those two facts we accumulate an astonishing amount of baggage. Much of it is necessary, some of it precious. Some of it is certainly ridiculous. I guess the question is what we choose to carry.

These conditions ask something of us - a deeper engagement with our communities, a more attentive relationship to place.

Wallace Stegner and Jack Turner represent two distinct voices in an ongoing dialogue for wilderness preservation.

That journey ten years ago solidified something inside me. I named this feeling “heart places.” It's a tug, something intrinsic...