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Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert | Terry Tempest Williams
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The beloved author of Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams is one of the countrys most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Red makes a stirring case for the preservation of Americas Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah. As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams writes lyrically about the deserts power and vulnerability, describing wonders that range from an ancient Puebloan sash of macaw feathers found in Canyonlands National Park to the desert tortoisean animal that can teach us the slow art of revolutionary patience as it extends our notion of kinship with all life. She examines the civil war being waged in the West today over public and private uses of landan issue that divides even her own family. With grace, humor, and compassionate intelligence, Williams reminds us that the preservation of wildness is not simply a political process but a spiritual one. Lush elegies to the wilderness. . . . Earthy, spiritual, evocative. The Boston Globe Erotic, scientific, literary. . . . Her intimacy with this landscape is complex and passionate. Los Angeles Times Book Review Her finest writing . . . Use[s] pure language in the face of laws that need to be changed and lawmakers and citizens who need to understand that there is another way to see. Portland Oregonian From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Suet624
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Oh, knock it off!!!

(A statement made to the author by an elder in the Mormon General Authority. He was concerned she was choosing not to have children.)

Karisa 🤢😱🤯🤬 6mo
Susanita I encountered two young Mormons last evening during my neighborhood walk. They were very friendly and personable, but I assured them that I have my own church and didn‘t need information about theirs. In fact, I‘ve been attending my church for more years than they have been alive. 6mo
Suet624 @Susanita 💕💕💕 6mo
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Lsmoore43 OMG. I am speechless. 6mo
BookmarkTavern One of the many reasons I left the LDS church. I was told my only value lay in the sons I could provide to a husband. 6mo
kspenmoll Not a surprise seeing who said this to her!!! I have a friend who was Mormon, left the Church when her dad was excommunicated for his homosexuality. She then was inundated with members & family persuading her to return. She eventually did for she sorely missed the community. I attended her baptism. But when she moved to CA to teach, a few years latter she left for good. She is an amazingly strong woman. (edited) 6mo
Eggbeater "The sperm you provide, over which your wife presides, is a total waste of a wank." That would be my response. 6mo
Suet624 @Eggbeater hahaha. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 6mo
Suet624 @kspenmoll that‘s hard to do, leaving a community.. sometimes it‘s harder to stay though. 6mo
Suet624 @BookmarkTavern Damn! I‘m glad you‘ve left. 6mo
Avanders 😠 6mo
LeahBergen Happy Birthday! 😘😘😘 6mo
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Musings on wilderness, hard-hitting political commentary, and poetic philosophy combine in this series of essays by TTW. We lived in UT during this timeframe and I remember the controversy around Grand Staircase Escalante and Bears Ears. She sums it up in the final paragraph above. (Photo from my daughter‘s class trip to Nine Mile Canyon in the 4th grade.)

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Lcsmcat
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You know how after all the sweet, rich, holiday food you crave plain fare and unsauced vegetables? Well, after Anne Radcliffe, I‘m craving some non-fiction. Southern Utah here I come.

melrailey Oooh I need this book! 4y
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"To be whole. To be complete. Wilderness reminds us what it means to be humans, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from." - Terry Tempest Williams, from a slim book quotations, Quotation Book: Our National Parks.
Some of my #currently reading #Augustphotochallenge #day27 @TheSpinecrackersBookClub - i usually have more than one book going to suit my mood -