by Andy Griffin On a trip to Bolivia, farmer and writer Andy Griffin gets invited to dinner by a local family. Delighted by a wealth of Andean tubers and hospitality he learns how to say a proper “Thank You.” Five Quechua girls followed me down the steep cobbled street at a distance, giggling, until one of them got up the nerve to dash past and confront me. “Would you please come to my house for dig deeper
by Deborah Phelan Join Deborah on a trip through the great American West, Alan Weisman’s classic, “The World Without Us,” as her companion. Beautiful and daunting, this essay connects the scars of the land with the tears of the soul. What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on? When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent dig deeper