Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a real paradox, to destroy the land, yet love it at the same time. This is a typical story of Westerners, how we build community through change.

No separation between the spiritual and the physical. It is all one.

We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies.

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.