Suzanne lends me the book Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams to read this weekend. I am drawn into William’s tale of grief and renewal and into her landscape of Utah and the Great Salt Lake.

Reading this book, especially these lines, leads me back to my own thoughts of home and land:

“A blank spot on the map is an invitation to encounter the natural world, where one’s character will be shaped by the landscape. … The landscapes we know and return to become places of solace. We are drawn to them because of the stories they tell, because of the memories they hold, or simply because of the sheer beauty that calls us back again and again.”