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The Grand Canyon

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

Pierre Schlag also has an intriguing passage that reminds me of something similar that a political science teacher said when I was in college: Last summer, I did a stint as a swamper with AZRA, a commercial outfit in the Grand Canyon.63 For many people, going down the river can be a lifechanging experience. It?s easy to understand how. The towering red and yellow walls, the intense play of light and shadow, the stark lines of the encroaching horizons, the extreme heat and the breathtaking dryness of it all conspire to put the real world in abeyance. All the little demands, requirements, schedules, preoccupations of that real world quickly begin to seem trivial. And then they fade entirely, until they are gone. Then too there is the rhythm of the river?of getting up early everyday, of going down the river, of making camp and breaking camp, and doing it every day so that each day is the same as every other day...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).