tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531712222331519980.post8049600553869135012..comments2017-01-12T04:28:31.506-08:00Comments on American Crossings: 7. 3/4/2010 – East by SouthEastCheryl Simrell Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02772537176768201662noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531712222331519980.post-38157386339682602182017-01-12T04:28:31.506-08:002017-01-12T04:28:31.506-08:00This blog specified all the single thing about thi...This blog specified all the single thing about this ranch and usefulness of its beauty in a single glance.<br /><br /><a href="http://montosacanyonranch.com/" rel="nofollow">Arizona Ranches For sale</a>montosacanyonranchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08234125585553748680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531712222331519980.post-50515810042721022102011-03-05T14:11:55.669-08:002011-03-05T14:11:55.669-08:00Interwoven journeys, no escape from time and space...Interwoven journeys, no escape from time and space. The early desert fathers (and mothers)wisely knew that running into the "solitude" of the desert was no cure for our problems, because we take our problems with us. The best we can hope for in the desert is clarity and an opportunity to work through those problems with (perhaps) fewer distractions. I just read Niebuhr's "The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness" and was struck by his assertion that democracy thrives in a society neither too pessimistic nor optimistic. Right now, I think the U.S. is out of balance and growing too pessimistic--does that resonate, Cheryl?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2531712222331519980.post-19425645689558791632011-03-04T13:00:20.215-08:002011-03-04T13:00:20.215-08:00Great post... And yes...
Nobody wants to read to...Great post... And yes... <br /><br />Nobody wants to read too many words anymore, but I'll always skim 'em all because you almost always have something smart to say. <br /><br />In the blogger world the standard for a paragraph is never to be longer than four lines and each handful of paragraphs needs a sub-heading in bold. I don't say this because you should, just so you know. <br /><br />Finally... The comment about arid and dry reminds me of how Wallace Stegner was obsessed with this truth. Ed Marston writing for High Country News explained it thus: <br /><br />"I couldn’t tell if he (Stegner) were angriest at the railroads and politicians who promoted land that couldn’t be farmed, or at his father for trying to farm it.<br /><br />Stegner told students there was another way. "Don’t deny or make over aridity; adapt to it, like the plains animals, with their good eyesight and mobility." Such adaptation, he said, "gives people the virtue of (living with) scarcity."<br /><br />To develop that virtue, he said, we must become patient, instead of thrashing about, squandering our energy and exhausting our land." http://www.hcn.org/wotr/13768Deanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09851382999379260748noreply@blogger.com