Status Updates From Marking the Sparrow's Fall:...

"Seldom, anywhere, have historical changes occurred so fast...And even though unwritten, it is not lost...the sensuous images persistent from childhood, like the ineradicable attitudes and prejudices, the history of one's truly native place may be comprehended in the bone and blood, and one may build life forward from it as surely as if his past had been learned under savants and memorialized in monuments and ruins."

The most nuanced take on Lake Powell I’ve ever seen. He also writes beautifully about Childhood.