Patricia Karamesines | September 28, 2009
I’m posting this at Times and Seasons as follow-up to a three-part series I wrote here a couple years back (see here, here and here). I’ve cross-posted it over at A Motley Vision’s companion blog Wilderness Interface Zone.
September 17th marked the two-year anniversary of the closing of Crossfire Canyon (real name: Recapture Canyon) to [...]
Dave Banack | September 12, 2009
“So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the desert,’ do not go out; … do not believe it” (NIV Matt. 24:26).
Nate Oman | July 21, 2009
This morning I went running with my dog.
Kent Larsen | July 20, 2009
Happy Moonlanding Day!
When I was a youth, I read a science fiction book in which dates in the future were figured from the day that Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon, apparently because the date had such significance in the history of man.
Frank McIntyre | June 19, 2009
If the gravitational constant were just a little bit different than what it is, you would not be here. Nor, for that matter, would anything else. So we’ve got that going for us.
Bruce F. Webster | April 27, 2009
With the past two months, I have read — for various reasons — four different novels laying out apocalyptic events within the United States. Here are the novels, in the order I read (or re-read) them, and with the reasons why I read them:
– Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (1977): a comet [...]
Adam Greenwood | February 24, 2009
Long-time Mormon culture blog A Motley Vision has added a companion blog focused on Mormon nature writing and Mormon thinking about the natural world. T&S stand-out Patricia Karamesines is the presiding muse. Check it out.
Ardis E. Parshall | February 18, 2009
Genesis and Geology
Sheldon Gilbert | January 23, 2009
I am a total NPR dork. I would LOVE to have Carl Kasell’s voice on my answering machine; when I was in middle school, I felt betrayed when I learned that Lake Woebegone wasn’t a real place; and I admit that I joined Ira Flatow’s Science Friday Facebook group (”for those who love Science Friday. [...]
Nate Oman | December 19, 2008
I often find walking in nature a spiritual experience, for want of a better term. Growing up, I think that I found my testimony in part by tramping through the Wasatch Mountains and watching thunder storms roll across the Great Salt Lake. Today, I am likely to have real moments of reverence and [...]
Adam Greenwood | October 24, 2008
One competitor’s vehicle exploded on camera already. The next attempt is at 2:30 Mountain Time. You can watch a live webcast here. The challenge t is being held in Las Cruces, NM, but is not open to the public.
Julie M. Smith | September 21, 2008
We begin with a quiz.
Brigham Daniels | September 9, 2008
Some of the thoughts of a commenter on my last post, got me thinking about Mormons, politics, and morality. My observation is that the issues that set off moral alarm bells for most Mormons are those that deal with issues relating to what I would consider “freedom to sin†or “prohibitions of obvious sins.†[...]
Brigham Daniels | September 8, 2008
The Mormon conception of Zion has changed dramatically over the past century. Today’s members of the church are likely to define “Zion” as wherever the members of the church are: LDS homes, congregations, and stakes. While the conception of Zion in the 19th century may have included these elements, these Saints were [...]
Adam Greenwood | August 13, 2008
God willing I will be giving a presentation on making the desert blossom as the rose and Mars settlement, tomorrow, August 14th, at 4:30 PM at the Mars Society conference. I would love to hear from any of you who might be attending.
Adam Greenwood | August 2, 2008
Falcon 1 is going to try for orbit this evening. The launch will be broadcast live. This is groundbreaking first. If it succeeds, the Falcon 1 would be the first rocket from the new space industry to make orbit.
Dave Banack | July 31, 2008
I recently read Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion Year History of the Human Body (Pantheon Books, 2008) by Neil Shubin, a paleotologist and professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago. By coincidence, Jared at LDS Science Review had posted the same book in his “Currently Reading” list. Here is [...]
Patricia Karamesines | November 1, 2007
Joseph Smith went to the woods because he wished to know the truth of his existence.
Patricia Karamesines | October 26, 2007
I hope some of you grabbed your moon glasses and stepped outside to have a look at how that full moon lights up the world. Thirty thousand miles closer than usual and thirty percent brighter, tonight this lesser light has a chance to really shine.
Patricia Karamesines | October 14, 2007
… grow tomatoes in their home garden, and lots of them. Men who know grow them, too.
Patricia Karamesines | September 28, 2007
See Part Two posted 9/27.
On September 22nd, I rose early and hiked into Crossfire. Afterward, I stopped at the local market and ran into a women I’d seen at the BLM’s open house, one of the most vocal SPEAR members present that night. We greeted each other and she demanded to know [...]
Patricia Karamesines | September 27, 2007
See Part One here.
On September 18th, the BLM held an open house explaining the closure to local residents. The BLM’s acting field manager opened the presentation, telling everyone that the purpose of the closure was to stop traffic through cultural sites. It wasn’t intended to be permanent, he said.
Patricia Karamesines | September 26, 2007
Crossfire Canyon is not the canyon’s real name. Following the trend in nature writing, I have refrained from providing any obvious identifying names or details. Otherwise, this three-part series describes actual events and conversations.
Mormons in Utah, especially in southern Utah, often find their concepts of stewardship put to the test when predominantly non-Mormon [...]
Patricia Karamesines | August 30, 2007
In the Preface to New Genesis: A Mormon Reader on Land and Community, the editors cite an unidentified 1991 report that places each of the thirty largest Christian denominations in one of five categories based on their environmental stances.
Patricia Karamesines | August 14, 2007
The day before the cliff swallows return to traditional nesting sites in canyons near where I live in southern Utah, the sky hangs quiet, with only a few ravens, hawks, and eagles spiraling through. The next day, whoosh! Swallows arrive reeling in their folklorico like revelers at an unseen party spilling onto a [...]
Patricia Karamesines | August 10, 2007
It is the destiny of mint to be crushed. –Waverley Lewis Root
June 12, 2007
Rained most of the night. Morning’s cool and sweet. Good day to venture into a canyon. Because the storm has left behind puffy white seeds that could blossom suddenly into rain, I replace my extra water bottle with a rain poncho. In [...]
Patricia Karamesines | July 21, 2007
We might use language in our attempts to set boundaries, but language contains in microcosmic acts the macrocosmic thrust toward new form.
November 4, 2006
The trail into the canyon is rougher at November’s threshold; run-off from recent storms took the same trail to the canyon’s main water course that I must take.
Patricia Karamesines | July 19, 2007
Some weeks ago a friend (an archaeologist and therefore a man of science) and I were discussing a nature writer who was coming to town to promote his latest book. I asked my friend if he liked this writer’s work. He said he did. I said that I did, too, and that [...]
Patricia Karamesines | July 15, 2007
Remember the silence around Pueblo Alto in Chaco, so heavy you felt blanketed by its snows, and the desert landscape spread out below, unmoving for miles? That was silence. Not even a breeze singing on the stones.
June 8, 2006
Hiked in the rain this morning.
Patricia Karamesines | July 13, 2007
All winter I plotted how to improve the garden, my first focal point for exercising “good stewardship” over the acre plus we moved to a year and a half ago. Last year’s garden had gone all right. I loved every minute in it, especially the time spent with animals, like Woodhouses’ toads and [...]
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