Charitable Views

Travel is fatal
to prejudice,
bigotry, and
narrow-mindedness,
and many of our people
need it sorely
on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome,
charitable views
of men and things
cannot be acquired
by vegetating
in one little corner
of the earth
all one’s lifetime.
--Mark Twain


view west from Monument Point*
clouds over Tapeats Canyon*
laissez les bon temps rouler*
Joe Ely: "Wind's Gonna Blow You Away"
beach at Granite Rapid


*on gracious loan from The Ruuscal Collection