“On the other hand, we are not given a Book of Mormon for some time, just when Christopher had begun to feel insulted. It was analogous, he said, to going to a gay bar and not being checked out. He… — Liz Stephens Copy Share Image
“Emerson writes that 'no one expects the days to be gods.' But now, as time flies and a baby will grow in a place of my choosing, I know. The days are gods. They are each unrepeatable and each a lesson in scope and wholeness, each worth honoring. I can hold and turn these days, consider their resonance, dim and… — Liz Stephens Copy Share
“But there is life, and there is making a living. Sometimes these two do not dovetail gracefully together, no matter how hard we close… — Liz Stephens Copy Share Image
“People who have been hunting all their lives with no compunction to consider the exchange they make and the gravity of the trade, I don't know where to put them. I just remind myself there are too many mule deer for the earth to handle, and before my inner dialogue says we took their space, not the other way around,… — Liz Stephens Copy Share
“On the other hand, there is the person in my family, who surprisingly is not me, who keeps nearly every scrap of paper she's… — Liz Stephens Copy Share Image
“...I've noticed there are overnight camping trips that are reenactments of that arrival. In the promotional photos advertising the trip, entire families wear costumes… — Liz Stephens Copy Share Image
“I am beginning to understand the way in which memories hold us, mindfully, to the earth, by the quality of attention paid that they… — Liz Stephens Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, we are not given a Book of Mormon for some time, just when Christopher had begun to feel insulted. It… — Liz Stephens Copy Share Image
“Still, it is surely true of all animals, and all conscious people, that the pain we inflict on each other is in some ways… — Liz Stephens Copy Share Image
“Of course she'll move away from me, and likely from here, because she is my daughter, because she is a daughter in the twenty-first… — Liz Stephens Copy Share Image
“It is the landscape that draws me and keeps me here, concurrently spare and breathtaking enough to empty my mind of chatter like hours… — Liz Stephens Copy Share Image
