“I grew up in motion. I have never lived outside the Southwest, yet in my childhood I rarely had the same home or lived in the same state for more than a year or two at a time. Well before adulthood I believed that all was right with the world only when I was standing at the brink of every possibility, a voyage not yet taken unraveling before me.”
― House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
― House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
“One small cloud had passed while we were out walking earlier in the day. It had dragged a quarter acre of shade across the desert, and we had set off chasing it, sprinting to catch up so we could get under its shade. Before we got there, the cloud lifted its skirt and sailed off, evaporating into nothing. We were left empty-handed, my oiled hat brim wilted in the sun.”
― House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
― House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
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