Moments from an insider’s
perspective of Small Town
Western USA where rugged,
tightly-woven mountains leave
just enough room for valleys to snuggle in between. A
neighbor, a procession, a
fantasy, and a finale combine to
recall memories we refer to as
the past.

Embedded in Miguel de
Cervantes’ famous novel Don
Quijote de la Mancha is the
story of a recently-wedded
husband who engages a friend
to test his new wife’s fidelity.
Good intentions aside, who
could have foreseen either the
events or the consequences that
would follow?

in 1886 when Ruth Bowen
stepped off the train that brought
her from New York to Salt Lake
City, she met polygamist and
businessman Benjamin Bowen.
She in her twenties, he middle
aged, plural marriage had been
made a crime. Benjamin would
serve time in prison. Were these
barriers sufficient to keep the
two apart?

People believe a person's spirit continues to live after a person dies. While no evidence supports this belief, the existence of a person's material body and immaterial self is readily verifiable. Although a material body is temporal with a beginning and ending and an immaterial self is timeless with neither a beginning nor an ending, the two exist in relation to each other.