Photo by Harry Rossi.

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Yes, it’s here . . .

The GPS says I’m 1.9 miles/4 minutes from home.  At this point on the 3500 mile round-trip drive to New Orleans and back I was thinking, “Don’t wreck the car now.”

I didn’t.  I got home safely, had a drink and slept for 12 hours straight.

. . . on the Colorado River near Moab, Utah.

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To give a simple answer to the question ‘what makes something beautiful?’ is very difficult. If I were to venture an answer nevertheless, it would be this: that a thing becomes beautiful only if it can be fitted into the contours of a full life, fully lived, and lived for others. I think religion has a lot to do with it, since what appeals to us in beauty is the vision of a redeemed and rescued world, one that is lifted free from the tyranny of appetite and endowed with a sacred glow that somehow justifies it. This certainly helps us to remain healthy, since it reminds us that the emotional life is a disciplined affair, which requires constant spiritual exercise.

From a short interview which can be found here — Manner Of Man.

Adrienne and Bill, my New Orleans hosts, sent me off on my drive home with two huge muffulettas from the Central Grocery in the French Quarter, which makes the best ones. The sandwiches sustained me on a long four-day drive and kept my memories of The Crescent City fresh.