"If Delicate Arch has any significance it lies, I will venture, in the power of the odd and unexpected to startle the senses and surprise the mind out of their ruts of habit." -Edward Abbey

Can You Hear this Photo? Wedged between the Great Salt Lake and the Rocky Mountains, this is where I live. At about five degrees celsius this sure was a cold May day. The chill in the wind was pushing the last of the storm out of the picture, keeping most warm-blooded folks inside, but not us.

Have you taken the time to look closer? From the warmth of my house I heard the 'ker-clunk' of waste being hoisted and dumped into the back of the truck. The sounds hit me like a ton of discarded bricks.

I'm Jake and as a lifelong observer of the world around me I've noticed I can get fixated on one thing at the expense of so many others... maybe you can relate?

In the lava field below the dormant Haleakala volcano I witnessed a lesson very valuable to me...

Magic is absolutely real, I say this with confidence because some moments I've lived through absolutely ooze with it!

Sure, everything we don't understand can romantically be called magic, until we find the right explanation.

I may not know the scientific explanation for how and why every hair on my arm stood when I stood under this magnificent place, but I know something unexplainable happened.