TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles ‘Return to Abajo Peak. An Autumn’s View’‘ Searching for Solitude at the Summit‘ SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles ‘Cheap Lives in a Sacred Economy W I N D O W S A c r o s…
The October/November Issue of the Zephyr!
Category: October/November 2013
Take it or Leave it: RETURN TO ABAJO PEAK, AN AUTUMN’S VIEW…by Jim Stiles
In the blink of an eye, summer has left us. The maples are turning red below South Peak, the aspens are on the cusp. The mornings are cold and crisp. The most poignant and melancholy and lovely time of the…
Sowing Clover: Cheap Lives in a Sacred Economy…by Tonya Morton
It’s a cliché to say that every object has a story. But, when you’re a consummate thrift store and flea market browser, as Jim and I are, the truth is that each of our belongings probably has three or four…
Take it or Leave it: Searching for Silence on the Summit…by Jim Stiles
I made my 28th trip to the top of a nearby mountain last month. But who’s counting? I hadn’t missed a year since 1985, and then my own procrastinations and an early snow storm stymied my efforts to make the…
Sanitizing the Truth: How BIKE Magazine Butchered an Honest Tale of Moab’s Last 20 Years…by Jim Stiles
I am in most ways an un-ambitious writer. Even downright lazy. While I’ve contributed to other magazines and periodicals over the years, and finally threw a book together in 2007, I confine most of my scribbling to The Zephyr. Recently,…
“Oh, for an Insuperable Moab…” by Jim Stiles
NOTE: Bolded passages are those cut out of the final BIKE magazine article. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests…when Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, what room will…
Superstition Land: A Fable of Boundless Water…by Scott Thompson
It is not that Pueblo Indians hate modern America…It is just that our unchecked growth, lack of social cohesion, and flamboyant use of resources worries them as being unsustainable. They expect to outlast us. – David E. Stuart, Archaeologist…
VLACHOS’ VIEWS…Photos and Captions by Paul Vlachos
Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… 1. It may not be much, photographically, but this photo has a…
The Bulletin Board of DOOM!
Solar power and other distributed renewable energy technologies could lay waste to U.S. power utilities and burn the utility business model, which has remained virtually unchanged for a century, to the ground. That is not wild-eyed hippie talk. It is the…
November 22, 1963–50 years ago, in Dallas and Moab…by Jim Stiles
“People will remember today as a day to date things in their lives from, in the same way they did with President Roosevelt. They say, where were you when President Roosevelt died…. they will say the same thing about where…