Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.

It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough?

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.

Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.

Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.