Goal 1: Enjoy Christmas break and bring in the New Year

Goal 2: Hike, Hike, Hike

Goal 3: Paint and fire pottery made at home (Cache Valley)

We have been staying on our property in Hanksville sense the night of the 23rd, spending Christmas Eve and Day painting pottery and welcoming the stillness, letting the desert hold us for a while. This hide is part of that week and part of the rhythm. We may leave more hidden later through the week, but for now this one rests and needs a place for others to find it here.

A dirt road, plus 30 miles out, right at the edge of the Wilderness Study Area (WSA) – where things still feel unfinished, unnamed, and quietly watched over.

This little place stopped us in our tracks the day before, so much that we had to come back and hide a piece.

An old tin structure, weathered and holding its own kind of history (if the walls could only tell me the story), marked simply “BJ’s Motel 6”, which made me think of the old slogan “We’ll leave the lights on.”

Out here, there is no lights on, but somehow….. something still is. This is where we left a small figurine just days after Christmas and a few before the New Year. A liminal time, a pause between what was and what’s coming. A kind of space where intentions settles deeper into the ground.

This figuring was made by a granddaughter named Amity. The day before we had been hiking some rocky canyons finding and collecting Fremont Bareberry root for s tincture I make in my office and sell. With yellow stained hands from collecting the root, red earth that is grows in and cold air made for quiet work. The kind of work that connects you backward and forward at the same time.

A handmade offering, a dirt roadside “motel”, on a wilderness edge… Maybe the lights aren’t on, but something still being let behind for those who stumble on it or who knows how to look… If you find it, take a moment and enjoy the scenery.