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"In Horizon's Lens, Elizabeth Dodd visits prehistoric sites that bear traces of human attempts to align with the cosmos: the etched and painted rocks of Chaco Canyon, a medicine wheel high in the mountains of Montana, the megaliths and burrows on the Orkney Islands, Mayan temples on the Yucatan Peninsula. Often timing her visits with solstices, equinoxes, and lunar events, she seeks to circumscribe the consciousness that once inhabited these landscapes..." -- From the opening paragraph.

A conversation with Rebecca McClanahan about her book The Tribal Knot: A Memoir of Family, Community, and a Century of Change.

"''There is then creative reading," wrote Emerson in 'The American Scholar." Poet and essayist Dan Beachy-Quick admits that this dictum is "the touchstone of his creative life," and it shows in his new prose collection Wonderful Investigations..." -- From the opening paragraph.

"Ever notice how people are more likely to say hi on a backwoods trail than on the city sidewalk? And why do folks seem more likely to stop and chat for a while the farther the trail-head is from an urban center?" -- From the opening paragraph.