![]() ![]() The history inscribed itself on the Map's most alarming folios ignoring it was no way to earn Home. ![]() Scrape off our century, and you will find its usurper, pressed into a nugget of inorganic matter, the single greatest threat to the continuity of life. You will see eternity, a desert that like no other place exudes the timelessness of nature as the final arbiter. Finalist: The Anthropology of Turquoise: Meditations on Landscape, Art, and Spirit, by Ellen Meloy (Pantheon Books) Share: Twitter Facebook Email. That color its chromatic science and its cultural symbology is what Ellen Meloy (June 21, 1946November 4, 2004) explores in The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (public library). ![]() Gaze out from the mesa, and you will meet my duplicitous lover. But the color of that dot suspended in a sunbeam is rather between blue and green: a pixel of turquoise. During my recent journeys this history felt foreign and unnervingly off-the-Map, even as I lived in its heart. On the Colorado Plateau, with its considerable share of wildlands, a natural world more or less intact, the most exotic terrain may be the plateau's own history. ![]() Pay attention to the weather, to what breaks your heart, to what lifts your heart. Get to know your ants, creatures, who lives there, who died there, who is blessed, cursed, what is absent or in danger or in need of your help. Know where you are.your biological address. In the desert there is everything and there is nothing. ![]()
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