Every Beautiful Mile

by Ashley Manley

Wandering souls, all pulled here for one reason or another, looking for beauty, meaning, and whatever else they can find in a cracked-open section of the earth. Beauty that exists regardless of the pain and emptiness each of us feels in the holes in our hearts that make us human.

“You know about the people who come into our lives with their love and change us as much as the Colorado River changed this unforgiving landscape. The ones that cut right through you and carve you into who you are supposed to be. They move slow and steady, eroding what we were away. What they leave behind are the ruggedly beautiful remains that remind us forever of their existence.”