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The objective of this website is to showcase the beauty of Utah's natural wonders through art, photography, atypical endeavors, and other stuff. The intent of this site's content is to provide an escape from daily routines by providing artistic and literary diversions. Creativity enlightens our spiritual and cognizant awareness and helps eliminate the mundane. A slogan I live by: "Never A Dull Moment."
Our world's secrets continue to be discovered through exploration. Risking the unknown broadens our knowledge. Hemingway wrote: "What Reward, Without Risk?" Edward Abbey advised us to "Resist Much, Obey Little." Two quotes that somewhat define the lives we should lead; taking risks while follow the heart and spirit and obeying that which must be obeyed in nature and within society.
The remains of Hovenweep and the ancient Anasazi (Pueblo) culture gets more intriguing with each visit. By studying ancient sites and exploring art on canyon walls in the form of etchings, petroglyphs and pictographs from the early inhabitants of America, provides understanding and perhaps guidance from messages carved and painted onto the rocks. Intriguing is a word that describes these ancient messages in our wilderness, some dating back 23,000 years.
In 2019, after several years of extended desert excursions, I moved to Moab, a small Utah town surrounded by two National Parks, Arches and Canyonland, numerous State Parks and National Preserves. Millions of visitors from all countries visit the Four-Corners region to enjoy the wonders found in our desert regions. After three years of rural desert life, that endless highway rolled me back to my beloved Holladay home at the base of Mt. Olympus. I continue to study the history and culture of the Anasazi who settled into the Four-Corners region centuries ago. I teach a course on the six villages of Hovenweep and the Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloans) in the University of Utah's Lifelong Learning Center. The next classes is scheduled for September 2025. Come join us.
In 2018 I retired from retirement and returned my focus to my first career upon graduating from the U of U in 1976, education. I teach in local secondary schools, and I teach courses on Hovenweep at the U of U. American history taught in public schools does not go back much further than Cortez and Columbus. Those who called America home prior to the arrival of Europeans are ignored in our public-school history curriculum. Research I conducted in 2023 - 2024 indicates that <8% of secondary education students have heard of the Anasazi culture that was prevalent in the four-corners region for centuries. I am optimistic the Utah State Board of Education will add this to curriculum being taught in Utah High School History classes.
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