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Show THE ZEPHYR/JUNE-JULY 2008 EUS e yO years, but certainly never more than once a year. They want easy gold like a slickrock rim with more traffic than an urban interstate, or a 4WD road never more than a day’s drive from a motel bed and a bar, or a hiking trail with plenty of cairns because getting lost can - be inconvenient. The Moab you lament is a vein of gold, the mother lode. You have to realize that it is buried and I will admit sometimes deeply. But it is there and always has been. It is a buried treasure deep inside of you and me. And when in the right place, at the right time NEE POINT BLANK SUBMISSIONS Unsolicted contributions to PB are welcome. Please keep the length of the essay between 800 and 1500 words. Essays are chosen at the whim of the publisher and any badgering of the publisher by the author will almost certainly lead to rejection. Published entries receive a five year subscription to the Zephyr. If you don’t receive your ‘prize,’ then feel free to badger the hell out of me. My subscription list is in chaos! THE CUTEST & BEST NURSERY IN THE WORLD IS... FOR PENSTEMONS Returning to why I read The Zephyr and your friend’s obituary so late. I mentioned earlier that I only read The Zephyr when I am in Moab. Despite my frequent trips to Moab and always having your paper close by, I am in the New West Moab. When going to the real Moab I forget to bring it along. I end up not reading it believing that it would be sacrilegious to do so in any place but the real Moab. In the New West Moab and Minnesota I can read The Times Independent. I apologize for my lack of timely loyalty and will remember to always carry it with me when I go to the real Moab. One last bit of advice, when going down Main Street, remember that you are not in Moab. As a wise man once said, “All that claims to be Moab is not necessarily so.” 1 0078P, Gece: | cars, no obnoxious tourists, no even-more-obnoxious conquerors of the wilderness. What I am telling you is that Moab is not a place, but a state of mind. As long as you have your mind you can always find Moab, the original Moab. SALE LuDean Merritt, GRI 435.719.6567 Treen i What we want isn’t in city limits and never was. The change you bemoan is not the degradation of a town, but the change in yourself. The loss you mourn was inside of you, something you had in the past that has slowly slipped away over the years. That may sound depressing, but here is good news. The gold is still inside of you. All you have to do is go out into a secluded canyon and not be afraid to look for it. Don’t tell me that you can’t, because I do it all the time. I drive past Denny’s and the Holiday Inn Express and in less than a mile they can’t even be seen. I thumb my nose at the fast food and espresso coffee and plan lunch by myself on a ledge halfway down a deserted canyon wall. (If anyone should happen by they are usually on top or at the very bottom.) It is amazing how many times the only sound I hear is the ringing in my middle-aged ears; no PENSTEMONS and in the right frame of mind, it shines and glows and shows off its wealth. merritt@moabrealestate.com 277\ §. HIGHWAY 191 (across from Stagecoach Cafe’) 435.259.4531 ima iy Soo SHREDDIN' ON-SITE DOCUMENT SHREDDING SCOTT FASKEN download ned mudd’‘s 970.464.4859 music FREE . ie fasken@bresnan.net . www.highplains.films.org : www.coloradod : i itu. yore WE RENT CANOES!!! They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum Then they charged the people A dollar and a half just to see ‘em Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you've got Til it's gone They paved paradise : = Red 2 é Pever canoe company l.c. And put up a parking lot 1371 North Highway 191 Moab UT 84532 Joni Mitchell | een me ere hee as ects piaciuerTaei eMart if) Dave Wegner...www.emirivers.com Nancy Jacques...www.ravenseyepress.com Peeters 435.259.7722 LOOK FOR OUR A-FRAME ae JUST NORTH OF TOWN. ' |