On the Solstice: Deep Winter Dreams of the Spring to Come | Literary HubLiterary Hub
For Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney There have been some big ideas every now and again that masquerade as truth, or shortcuts to truth—ideas that find cunning attachment to the lock-and-key architecture of the hemispheric globes of our brains. These artificial truths weigh as heavily upon us, I suppose, as a deep blanket of snow, or even a covering of stones. They try to bury us and, over time, sometimes they succeed. Where I live, in a tiny garden of Eden in northwest Montana, up against the Canadian border—the beleaguered Yaak Valley—we have only 25 grizzly bears remaining, the problem...
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