Editorial

As the pages of 2024 lay blank before us with uncharted adventures and experiences, there are a few things I wish for all of us in the upcoming year.I wish that creativity will be our sidekick in the coming year in order to sharpen our existing talents and allow new ways of thinking to lead us to new aptitudes.I hope we will have the courage to stand up for ourselves and on the side of humanity, for the unfortunate, the weak, the elderly and our children when the occasions arise that we need champions.

The sky was dark red in an early sunrise as I slipped out the door.

Let me begin with a recap of this year’s weather.

“Well, if it isn’t the Fleming girls,” Santa’s deep voice boomed to my sister and I.

“ ’What should I do?’ Coyote yelled.

According to one famous Christmas song that is for some reason named, “The Christmas Song”, the season is long on chestnuts, Jack Frost, yuletide carols, and, for some reason, though I’ve personally never seen it myself, folks dressed up like Eskimos.Setting aside theoretical folks impersonating the dress of the indigenous people of the Arctic regions, the holiday season is indeed filled with tradition, new and old.

This time of year, many conspicuous characters abound.

Omu’s JournalDolores, Part 2By Tom ElderUintah Trails Working GroupLast week, we left our semi-hardy band of intrepid dummies on a sand bar at the entrance to Slickrock Canyon of the Dolores River.

She was beautiful, wild, untamed.… dangerous.