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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 have lived by and continue to do so: "Never A Dull Moment."
Our world's continue to be discovered through our explorations. Risking the unknown broadens our knowledge. Hemingway wrote: "What Reward, Without Risk?" Edward Abbey advised us to "Resist Much, Obey Little." Two quotes that define the lives they lead; taking risks while follow the heart and spirit and obeying what nature forces us to obey. How we should all consider living our lives.
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, 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. 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 villages of Hovenweep and the Ancestral Puebloans in the University of Utah's Lifelong Learning Center. Come join the September 2025 class.
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. Public school, American history does not go back much further than Cortez and Columbus. Those who called America home prior to the Europeans are ignored in our history curriculums. Research conducted in 2023 - 2024 indicates <8% of secondary education students have heard of the habitation of the habitation of the four-corners region by 35,000 Anasazi between AD 800 and AD 1320. I have requested the Utah State Board of Education to add this to history curriculums being taught in Utah High School History classes.
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