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Show THE ZEPHYR/FEBRUARY-MARCH 2005 THE CANYON COUNTRY t , A Frere ns STS a Seng a Match 199, IN THE ZEPHYR... A Ness a Arete subject to change first annual LAME 1S by Cherie Gilmore we're tired vt » we're sick * We don't ci IN THIS ISSUE: care oh Sy _ interviews with: Walt dabney and Roger Zortman Ken Davey’s monthly news summary a story by Robert Fulghum Bumper stickers for Moab in the 905 the Groene Report photo update on mtowning Moab more Herb Ringer's American West It's weird going through life in the center lane. - I have successfully deluded myself into believing I feel pretty strongly about certain things. Still, I frequently find myself on the periphery looking in at the real hard-core believers. where to put the blame for my spineless nature. I’m not sure Perhaps it’s genetic, such a deeply ingrained character flaw that I am “powerless to change it. Even if I wanted to. Maybe I could blame it on being a middle child. The theory that works best for ~ me though, is that Iam simply the sorry product of a boring time in history. Think about it. What was there to inspire a burning commitment in the 70’s? My biggest goal was to grow up to be a member of the Partridge Family. It got worse in high school. Disco was big. Need I say more? So here I am, trapped in the land of in-between. Too young to care where I was when Kennedy was shot (walking, Mother tells me), but too old to see the appeal of M.C. Hammer. What to do. Should I join the committee to re-elect Bush or go blow up a bulldozer? That's too easy. But still there’s that gutless little voice-What if I use too much dynamite and hit a oo : away ‘ a histor y of bumper Sticke rs P.O. BOX 3} mona, UTAH m Moab, Utah LONDON TOKYO PARIS ROME MOAB nearby office building? Will anyone step forward to bail me out of jail? Would they even acknowledge me as one of them? I don’t own a pair of Birkenstocks. It’s true. I usually just wear tennis shoes. I shave my legs. Even in Winter. I have friends who are ranchers. Worst of all--I can’t keep this in any longer, someone’s bound to find out--when my son was 5 weeks old and Thad to drive to Canada in one-night, I took disposable diapers. And yet I think of myself as an environmentalist. Although, now that I think about it, I probably drove to the last environmental gathering I attended. I So there’s that question again. Where do go? a Maybe there are others like me--people who keep Desert Solitaire on the table next to the bed but still put their grapes in plastic bags because the last time they tried paper everyone forgot the grapes were there and they turned to a gelatinous mass on the bottom shelf of the fridge. Maybe they love knowing there's some wilderness left, and maybe they spend time lobbying for even more, but they never get so deeply into it that they lose track of where the car is parked. Just thoughts. Mere ramblings actually. There’s a full moon tonight and Murphy Brown. I should HAVE YOU SEEN ALL THE NEW MOTeL CoN stiUcTioN® , BINT IT GREAT go for a long hike. But I’d miss AMIS IS _MOARS ANYBODY FoR AN FINEST HOUR., EGG MS MUFFIN? After decades of service to the Moab community, the Canyonlands Cafe’, at the corner of Main & Center Streets, came down in February 1992. |