Palimpsest in the Suburbs

Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.

Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.

Wendell Berry

The Mad Farmer Manifesto

Photograph taken in Taylorsville, last Wednesday.

While it seems that the world goes crazy because of religion or its lack, that same world is full of unexpected beauty and grace and voices and images which speak for sane, life-giving action.

JDL

The Landscape of People

The Landscape of People + September 3, 2012 at LouLand Falls

The landscape we are privileged to see is not only mountains but relationships. Here are the flower girls at the wedding of one of my friends. Such a privilege.

JDL

Iron Canyon Aspens, A Community of Grace

Iron Canyon Aspens

Populus Tremuloides, the Aspen, leaves fluttering and creating a gentle sound in the fall wind. Aspens, also a sign of the beauty and mystery and connectedness of community, with its hidden roots.

Patriotism and Resistance

Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands. 

Manifesto by Wendell Berry

These flags were posted at the intersection of Hwys 224 and 248  to remember the three thousand Americans who had by that time died needlessly in the Middle East in Iraq.  Sometimes people buy this image, thinking that it is "patriotic", i.e. supporting the military and the powers that be. But I took the photo to stand in solidarity against the powers that be and with all, American and Iraqi, who have suffered because of war.

Park City Love Shack

This "graffiti"  on HWY 40 near Home Depot was put up in the Spring and painted over with grey by the owner, but I was lucky to capture it.  What makes the landscape sacred is love.  As our mayor Dana Williams says, "My job is to increase the love."