1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Good evening, my name is Jim Wohlpart, I 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:16,000 have the deep honor of being the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:17,000 here at the University of Northern Iowa, thank you for coming out. 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,000 "Democracy is 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,030 an insecure landscape,” wrote Terry Tempest Williams in a letter 7 00:00:25,030 --> 00:00:29,030 dated October 6th, 2004. 8 00:00:29,030 --> 00:00:33,000 “And today, it feels even more so.” 9 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Williams penned this letter to then President William Merwin, a 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,030 Florida Gulf Coast University after he canceled her convocation 11 00:00:41,030 --> 00:00:45,000 address. His concern: remarks 12 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,000 about President George Bush included in The Open Space of Democracy. 13 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,000 She continues, “If our institutions 14 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,000 of higher learning can no longer be counted on as champions 15 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,030 and respecters of freedom of speech, then I fear 16 00:01:01,030 --> 00:01:05,000 that no voice is safe from being silenced 17 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,030 in this country. The Open Space of Democracy 18 00:01:09,030 --> 00:01:13,000 is a call for conscious dialogue in times of 19 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,030 devisive political rhetoric that has no heart. 20 00:01:17,030 --> 00:01:21,000 Democracy invites us to take risks 21 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,000 it asks that we vacate the comfortable seat of 22 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,030 certitude, remain pliable, and act, 23 00:01:29,030 --> 00:01:33,030 ultimately, on behalf of the common good. 24 00:01:33,030 --> 00:01:37,030 Democracy’s only agenda,” she concludes, 25 00:01:37,030 --> 00:01:41,000 “is that we participate.” 26 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,030 In response to President Merwin’s cancelation, 27 00:01:45,030 --> 00:01:49,030 the students at Florida Gulf Coast University, 28 00:01:49,030 --> 00:01:53,000 the students, the college Democrats 29 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,030 joined by the college Republicans, and 12 other organizations 30 00:01:57,030 --> 00:02:01,030 reinvited Terry to campus, where she 31 00:02:01,030 --> 00:02:05,000 appeared as scheduled. 32 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,030 These were the circumstances under which I 1st met Terry Tempest Williams 33 00:02:09,030 --> 00:02:13,030 who has been called a “citizen writer" 34 00:02:13,030 --> 00:02:17,000 a writer who speaks eloquently on behalf 35 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,000 of an ethical stance towards life. A naturalist and 36 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:25,000 fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has 37 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,030 consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues, 38 00:02:29,030 --> 00:02:33,000 that ultimately become matters of justice. 39 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,030 “So, here’s my question,” she asks, 40 00:02:37,030 --> 00:02:41,030 “what might a different kind of power 41 00:02:41,030 --> 00:02:45,030 look like? And feel like? And can power 42 00:02:45,030 --> 00:02:49,030 be redistributed, equitably, even beyond 43 00:02:49,030 --> 00:02:53,000 our own species?” Williams has 44 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,000 testified before congress on women’s health issues, been a guest 45 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 at the White House, has camped in remote regions of Utah and Alaska, 46 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,000 and worked as a barefoot artist in Rwanda. Known for 47 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,000 her impassioned, lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author 48 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,000 of the environmental literature classic, “Refuge: An Unnatural History 49 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000 of Family and Place.” She has published many other books, 50 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,000 too many to mention here, but if you don’t have a Terry Tempest 51 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Williams section in your library at home, tonight is the night to build 52 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:29,000 one. Her most recent book, “The Hour of Land: A 53 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,000 Personal Topography of America’s National Parks” honors the centennial 54 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 of the National Park Service. The book is a New York Times Best Seller 55 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 and in 2006 Williams received the Robert Marshall 56 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Award from the Wilderness Society, the highest honor given to 57 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,000 any American citizen. She also received the Distinguished 58 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Achievement Award from the Western American Literature Association and the 59 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Wallace Stegner Award given by the Center for the American West. 60 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,000 She has also received the Lannan Literary Fellowship, and a John Simon 61 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction. In 2009, Terry 62 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Tempest Williams was featured in Ken Burns’ PBS series on the National 63 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Parks, how many of you have seen that? Remarkable. You need to see it. 64 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,000 In 2014, on the 50th 65 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:21,000 anniversary of the wilderness act, Ms. Williams received the 66 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Sierra Club John Muir Award, honoring a distinguished record 67 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 of leadership in American conservation. 68 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 She has served as the Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in the University of Utah's 69 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:38,000 environmental humanities graduate program which she also helped found. 70 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,000 She’s currently a writer in residence at the Harvard Divinity school. 71 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times, 72 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,000 The Progressive, Orion Magazine, and numerous anthologies 73 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,000 worldwide as a crucial voice for ecological 74 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,000 consciousness and social change. She and her husband, 75 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Brooke, divide their time between Castle Valley, Wyoming, 76 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,000 and other places where she’s teaching. As you know, 77 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Terry is the final speaker in the 2018-2019 78 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Aldo Leopold lecture series here at the University of Northern Iowa. 79 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:17,000 As part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary 80 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,000 of the North American Review on our campus. Folks, this is 81 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:25,000 remarkable. It’s been an amazing year with great speakers. 82 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Like Williams, Leopold challenged 83 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,000 our worldview, offering an expanded ethical framework within 84 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:37,000 which to consider relationships, including, 85 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,000 especially, our relationship to the land. In the 86 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Sand County Almanac, Leopold asserted that our ethical obligation 87 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,000 exists beyond the social world of humans to include 88 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 the soils, the waters, plants and animals, 89 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,000 that is the land. He insisted 90 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,000 that we broaden our understanding of care to recognize 91 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,000 the intertwinement of humans with the natural world. 92 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,000 The Aldo Leopold Distinguished Lecture Series 93 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,000 is born of this same vision: to question our 94 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,000 assumptions, to critique our values and beliefs, 95 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,000 and to expand or even alter our way of thinking and 96 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,000 being in the world. In order to create a foundation for the 97 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,000 thriving of human society and planet Earth together 98 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,000 into the future. To achieve such a thriving, 99 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,000 will depend upon deepening our understanding of 100 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,000 our deep connection with the world around us. So I want to 101 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,000 pause for a moment and thank the Leopold Committee for their dedication and hardwork 102 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,000 bringing such a spectacular round of speakers to our campus 103 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:53,000 they include Chris Martin, who I think is here tonight, Chris give a wave if I 104 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,000 say your name, there’s lot of folks here. Rachel Morgan is here in the front, 105 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Jeremy Schraffenberger is here, back on the side, 106 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Marcy Seavey, I saw come in, Angela 107 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Waseskuk, I know is here, Theresa Westbrock, 108 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,000 from our library is here, 109 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,000 Senator Eric Giddons, I saw walk in late, 110 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,000 [applause] and I 111 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,000 especially want to thank, you all have seen Eric running around, right? 112 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Eric O’Brien. What’s remarkable about Eric O’Brien’s work is that 113 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:33,000 he’s the Director of Sustainability in the division 114 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,000 of Facilities and Operations. He’s not even in academic affairs, but you couldn’t tell that. 115 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,000 What a remarkable confluence: Eric O’Brien, Director of 116 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Sustainability, and Alicia Rosburg, the Provost fellow for sustainability 117 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:49,000 have brought it together so that our campus understands 118 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,000 the deep work that needs to happen with sustainability. Please give them our thanks. 119 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,000 [applause] 120 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,000 121 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,000 Now you all…if you’ve been in Iowa 122 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:09,000 most or all of your life, you may not fully appreciate today, although after 123 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,000 the winter we’ve had, you do. Coming from Florida for 21 years, I 124 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,000 certainly know that there are very few places in the world that you get a day 125 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,000 like we had today. You all know, 126 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,000 with this crystal clear sky, the reason that we’ve ordered this weather 127 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,000 for this evening is because we have a full moon tonight. 128 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 The “Frog Moon” tonight. The frog moon comes in 129 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,000 mid-spring, when Earth is returning to life, and 130 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,000 what the frog moon reminds us to do is to remember 131 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,000 our connection to Earth. To all of our relations, the plants and the 132 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,000 animals, and to each other. The frog moon is a time of healing 133 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,000 and restoration. It is a time of 134 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,000 ceremony as a sacred act of renewal. 135 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,000 When I think about the importance 136 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,000 of today, when I think about the weather outside, the 137 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,000 turning of the seasons, the moon, the NAR turning 50 138 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:13,000 on our campus and moving into this new space, 139 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,000 and then this visit by this remarkable and gifted speaker, 140 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,000 I wonder, can we learn again, to think 141 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,000 of the daily. The mundane. The 142 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,000 chores that we go through on a daily basis, the wind blowing in our face, as the sacred. 143 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:33,000 Can we remember that it is the sacred? 144 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,000 And participate in this act of continual co-creation 145 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,000 of the universe? Tonight, I would offer, is just 146 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:45,000 such a gift. The gift of the frog moon 147 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,000 that can connect us to something bigger. 148 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,000 To his credit, President William 149 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,000 Merwin did attend Terry’s lecture on 150 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,000 the FGCU campus that evening, and Terry, if you remember, 151 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,000 she brought her father with her, who is a very tall strapping man. 152 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,000 We made certain that her father sat between the President and Terry. 153 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,000 [laughter] He did later acknowledge 154 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,000 to me and a classroom full of students that he made a mistake in cancelling 155 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 that convocation, and that he had learned and grown 156 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 that night. But before Terry spoke 157 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,000 on the FGCU campus that auspicious evening, she received 158 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,000 a standing ovation that lasted a full 5 minutes. Please 159 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,000 join me in welcoming Terry Tempest Williams to this historic Lang Hall Auditorium 160 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,000 on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa. 161 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:45,000 [applause] 162 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,000 163 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,000 164 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:57,000 165 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,000 [applause] 166 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,000 167 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,000 [Terry]This is what leadership looks like. 168 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Thank you so much, Jim. 169 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,000 [applause] 170 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:21,000 I am so excited to be here in 171 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,000 this place, and I’m nervous and I hope you’ll bear with me. 172 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,000 My heart will calm down, but this does 173 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,000 feel like an auspicious moment, and to be here at the University of 174 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:37,000 Northern Iowa is just a great gift. 175 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Thank you, Jim and Sasha. Dear friends, 176 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,000 old friends, we’ve been through much together, protecting 177 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,000 The Open Space of Democracy as Jim recounted, 178 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,000 and that moment changed me, at The Gulf Coast 179 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,000 University in Florida. It was hard 180 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,000 and I think in that moment, I stopped using the word 181 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,000 ‘hope.’ Because I saw that it was so fully 182 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,000 embodied in the students. 183 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,000 I stopped using hope and I changed it to faith, because that is what I 184 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:17,000 have faith in. And I would just love to see the students stand 185 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,000 who are here tonight. [applause] 186 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,000 187 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,000 188 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:33,000 189 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,000 And in my heart, this is what The Open Space 190 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,000 of Democracy is. What I do remember, is that 191 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,000 the students, their one condition, when they said, we will have 192 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:49,000 this, is that the President 193 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,000 of Florida Gulf Coast University and I would be on the 194 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,000 same program, and that mattered. 195 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,000 It was difficult for both of us, but I think 196 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,000 what I said to the students, I remember so clearly, is “you don’t have to read a book 197 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,000 about The Open Space of Democracy, you embody it.” And 198 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,000 that has always stayed with me, and Jim, your leadership was 199 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,000 absolutely front and center 200 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:21,000 at that moment, and I’ve never forgotten you. 201 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,000 I’ve never forgotten the love that I hold for you. That was 25 years 202 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,000 ago. That’s hard for me to really even 203 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,000 take in, because at that time, in that administration 204 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:37,000 and I certainly don’t mean to offend anyone, although, 205 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:41,000 I have a tendency to do so, I don’t assume that we 206 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,000 all share the same politics. Coming from Utah, I know that’s not true. I was saying that 207 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:49,000 to the students today, and in fact it’s not true in my own family 208 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,000 and maybe some of you have that experience, but I love that we can have the 209 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,000 conversation. 25 years later, I 210 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,000 think our democracy has never been in greater peril. 211 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:05,000 It’s not about, in my mind, 212 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Republicans or Democrats, but a sense of decency. 213 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,000 A sense of truth-telling, and a sense of 214 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,000 really standing our ground in the 215 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:21,000 places we love when there is so much loss 216 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:25,000 in our public lands. 217 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:29,000 That’s really what I want to talk about tonight. 218 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:33,000 I’m deeply moved to be a part of this Aldo Leopold series. 219 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Just to see who you have had here, 220 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,000 real heroes of mine, and to be able to celebrate the 50th anniversary 221 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:45,000 of the North American Review. It was literally the 1st 222 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,000 place that I was ever published, and I remember 223 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,000 [applause] that’s how I felt! 224 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:57,000 I was so excited! You know, people say you always remember 225 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:01,000 “where you were when…” I remember where I was when I received... 226 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,000 I still have the letter, it was this small letter from Robley Wilson 227 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,000 and it was the most courteous, generous letter; 228 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:13,000 “Dear Ms. Tempest William’ you know, ‘we 229 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,000 accept’ and I didn’t read anything else [laughter] 230 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Bill, to hear you talk about your father and your mother 231 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:25,000 and your ‘dinner table of the manuscripts’, 232 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:29,000 that were surrounded by the food that you ate, I’m so grateful 233 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:33,000 for your sacrifice that has been our gain. 234 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,000 I really want to make a commitment to the 235 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:41,000 editors, tonight. 236 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,000 With this beautiful new design, I think it’s a new era for all of us to 237 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,000 pay our respect to the magazine that gave us a voice. I cannot wait 238 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:53,000 to go back and tell my students to send 239 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:57,000 in their manuscripts to be a voice and an advocate 240 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,000 for this venerable literary magazine, 241 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,000 and to earn my name, that is listed as one of the 242 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,000 contributing editors, so thank you. I was 243 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,000 reading some of the beautiful 244 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,000 entries in this special issue on The Open Space of Democracy, and you 245 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,000 have to know how much this means to me, that this has been 246 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,000 a phrase that you have taken as your own. With the gorgeous posters, 247 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:29,000 the submissions, and again, it gives me such faith 248 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,000 in where we are and where we 249 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:37,000 will continue to be and move forward. I was particularly 250 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:41,000 struck by Heather Lang, “The White Whale, or the Existential Heart” 251 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,000 after Melville, quote unquote: “A slender statue has become 252 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:49,000 the night. Flashing restless anger deeper into 253 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,000 what? We do not agree.” 254 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,000 Let me read that one more time: “A slender statue has become 255 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,000 the night, flashing restless anger deeper, into what? 256 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:05,000 We do not agree.” No we don’t. 257 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,000 We are a divided nation and in some ways I feel like 258 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,000 the civil war has never ended, and as writers, how do we 259 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,000 write in a way that opens hearts instead of closes them? 260 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Jim, your leadership continues to show me how that is possible. 261 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,000 You’re one of the most elegant minds I’ve ever met, and also one of the most 262 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,000 graceful human being who acts outof compassion and intelligence. 263 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,000 One who knows how to listen and I personally honor your conscious leadership. 264 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Sasha, I want to tell you as a friend and as a sister, 265 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,000 how deeply your creative vision inspires 266 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 my own, your beautiful tenacity toward life, and I will use this word 267 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:49,000 again, graceful, manifestation of courage becomes you. 268 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,000 And I just love that you have taken this leadership onto the school board. 269 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,000 We honor you. [applause] 270 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,000 271 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,000 272 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:09,000 To all of you who are here, students, 273 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,000 visiting writers for this conference, faculty, community 274 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:17,000 members, we can all share the celebratory 275 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,000 moment together under this beautiful full moon 276 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:25,000 in the prairies. Thank you Taylor 277 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:29,000 Brorby, for your work on fracking 278 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,000 and where we find ourselves now. Also Deborah Marquart 279 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:37,000 you just gave me such a beautiful piece of knowledge 280 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:41,000 that you’re writing about oil. These are the writers that I admire 281 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:45,000 they’re on the frontlines, you are, not only in the classroom, but in 282 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,000 community, and it’s just a privilege to be able to 283 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:53,000 stand with you by your side. 284 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Again, Jeremy, Rachel, Brooke, Brian, 285 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Sarah, and Grant, thank you for your editorial brilliance. 286 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Iowa, Utah, 287 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:09,000 We bear many similarities. We are a 288 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,000 conservative people tied to the land, with an immense sky that arches 289 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,000 over us. We are wanted for our oil and gas, 290 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:21,000 and we have suffered the physical consequences of 291 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:25,000 pesticides and nuclear testing, with high rates of cancers. 292 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,000 I was immediately aware of that… um…just with the 293 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,000 advertisements for the hospitals and what’s happening here in Iowa. 294 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,000 It’s the same in Utah, it’s the same in New Mexico, 295 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,000 and so many of these places where oil and gas 296 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,000 has moved in. We’re both the sites of National 297 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Campaigns, the Bakken pipeline, DACA, that’s 298 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,000 cutting your state in half. For us in Utah, it’s the gutting of our National Monuments 299 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,000 for oil and gas development, Bear’s Ears National Monument, 300 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,000 Grand Staircase Escalante, National Monument. 301 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,000 There is a healthy opposition among us, 302 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,000 and it’s here that I believe that the Open Space 303 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,000 of Democracy is most alive. We are 304 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:17,000 a kind and community driven people, I believe that. 305 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,000 It’s not easy to disagree publicly, or to have 306 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,000 the hard conversations, but I believe we are having them. 307 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,000 And the scale and repetity with which our communities are being torn asunder, 308 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,000 I think, are bringing both sides together. I see it in my 309 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,000 own family. Even to the point that when Brooke and I, my husband, 310 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:41,000 bought oil and gas leases in the state of Utah as a protest, 311 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,000 being inspired by Tim DeChristopher, who served 2 years in prison. At a very 312 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,000 hard moment among our family, my 313 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,000 family lays pipe where natural gas runs through, 314 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:57,000 my father, with our newly constructed LLC 315 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Tempest energy company, said “I will be your CEO, 316 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:05,000 because you don’t know what the hell you’re doing.” [laughter] My father didn’t do 317 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,000 that to be kind, he did it because he believed in it; because of the scale, 318 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,000 because of these lands, our public lands, our public commons 319 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:17,000 are being ravaged. "A thing 320 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:21,000 is right,” Aldo Leopold wrote, “when it 321 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:25,000 tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the 322 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:29,000 biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” 323 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:33,000 That is a manifesto to me, and I remember reading it as a young writer and I thought, 324 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,000 ‘that’s all I need.’ 325 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,000 And it is on my desk, and I look at it every time I sit down to write. 326 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:45,000 “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and 327 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:49,000 beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it 328 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,000 tends to do otherwise.” That—is an ethical 329 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,000 stance toward life, I gauge. 330 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,000 At the heart of 331 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,000 the Open Space of Democracy is the land, public lands, and in 332 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,000 the beating core of public lands is Aldo Leopold. Call him 333 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:13,000 a ‘deep part of the land ethic’ here in Iowa. 334 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,000 What I can tell you, is anything I have written, I honestly 335 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,000 was derivative of Leopold’s land ethic. In fact, I’m 336 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:25,000 almost ashamed to say but I think I’ve plagiarized him. [laughter] 337 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,000 This paragraph, for example, “The land ethic 338 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,000 simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, 339 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,000 waters, plants, and animals collectively, the land. 340 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,000 In short, the land ethic changes the role of homo sapiens from 341 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,000 conqueror to the land community, to plain member and citizen of it. 342 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,000 It implies respect for his fellow members, and also respect for the community 343 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:53,000 as large.” I have written these exact words 344 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,000 and I only hope that if his ghost is here, his spirit, 345 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:01,000 that he understands that it is only because nobody 346 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,000 can say it better than he has, and the rest of us are following. 347 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,000 The words that I read on the banks of 348 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,000 the Green River in 349 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, were 350 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Aldo Leopold’s. I had just graduated from high school in Salt Lake City, 351 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,000 I was with my mother and grandmother, and brothers and cousins, 352 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,000 and as they were playing in the water and the women in my family 353 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:33,000 were talking about family issues, I was sitting beneath a cottonwood tree, 354 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,000 reading “The Land Ethic.” It created a revolution 355 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:41,000 in me. Leopold loved wild places, and 356 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:45,000 wild geese, so did I. Leopold was asking me to 357 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:49,000 quote “think like a mountain.” That didn’t seem strange to me. 358 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,000 The Wasatch Mountains were my backbone and bedrock at once, and when he 359 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,000 spoke of seeing the green fire go out of the dying wolf’s eyes, 360 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:01,000 I knew that green fire was alive in my own heart. 361 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,000 What I didn’t know then, that I do know now, 362 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,000 is after witnessing decades of environmental degradation, 363 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000 is how important it is to fight for these lands. 364 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,000 My father recently said, “she used to be such a nice person," 365 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,000 [laughter] and that was after he also said, 366 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:25,000 at the same dinner, family dinner, “at least she has a hobby.” 367 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,000 [laughter] Writing. 368 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,000 And in fighting for land health, 369 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:37,000 and Leopold’s words, and protecting that land, 370 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:41,000 “We’re also joining arms with our brown and black and native 371 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:45,000 brothers and sisters in issues of environmental and social justice.” 372 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,000 I am so grateful for that, and much of what I want to share tonight 373 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:53,000 is how Utah has been completely transformed by 374 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:57,000 the leadership of the tribes. The 375 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Navajo, Dine, Hopi, Zuni, Ute, and 376 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Ute Mountain Ute, they have shown us, not only 377 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:09,000 what dignity is, 378 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,000 but how to listen, 379 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,000 what integrity feels like, 380 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,000 and how when I asked Willie Grayeyes, who is one of the community organizers 381 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,000 and a spiritual leader among his people, 382 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:29,000 where he resides at the base of Navajo Mountain, 383 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:33,000 he said to me in a very low moment, and with a name like 384 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,000 Tempest, it’s hard not to get angry easily, [laughter] 385 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,000 when we knew what was going to happen with Donald Trump coming in to gut Bear’s Ears, 386 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:45,000 I went to him, and I said, “Willie, 387 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:49,000 what do we do with our anger?” and he looked at me and he said, 388 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,000 “This is not a time for anger, Terry, anymore, this has 389 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,000 to be a time of healing.” I’m still thinking about 390 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,000 what that means. 391 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,000 "One of the penalties of 392 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,000 an ecological education, is that one lives alone in a world of 393 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,000 wounds,” Aldo Leopold. Don’t you love that? 394 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:17,000 “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that 395 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,000 one lives alone in a world of wounds.” I want to 396 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,000 just briefly give a rendering of what’s 397 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:29,000 happened in Utah, because I think one place illustrates 398 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,000 every place. How many have heard of Bear’s 399 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:37,000 Ears? It makes me so happy, because a couple 400 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,000 of years ago, that would not have been the case. Bear’s Ears 401 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,000 has changed me, instructed me, continues to mentor 402 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,000 all of us who live in this state of Utah, 403 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:53,000 as to the art of dwelling, what that really means. 404 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,000 Mark Maryboy, who I’ve known for decades, 405 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Utah is a small town, maybe it’s the same in Iowa, 406 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,000 he’s been one of the most courageous native leaders... 407 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,000 former county commissioner, um… 408 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,000 very very brave. He told…when someone asked him 409 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,000 “How long has Bear’s Ears been going on?” He looked at them and said, “How long 410 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,000 has the Earth been formed?” Then he walked about when he 411 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,000 was a child, he was sitting on the banks of the 412 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:29,000 San Juan River, by the bridge. If you can imagine, 413 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,000 it was 1968, in the spring, 414 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:37,000 and Robert Kennedy was running for President of the United States. 415 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,000 He paid the Navajo elders a visit, 416 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,000 and on the edge of the San Juan River, he asked 417 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,000 them, “How might I serve you?” Can you imagine? 418 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:53,000 Mark listened 419 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,000 as his grandparents, who were elders, said, 420 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,000 in unison, “Protect Bear’s Ears.” 421 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,000 That was 1968. 422 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,000 In 2011, it started being discussed. I think it was ignited 423 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,000 by the oil and gas development, 424 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,000 the elders came forward, met with 425 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,000 conservationists in the state, and a conversation began. 426 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,000 2016, President Barack Obama 427 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:29,000 listened, and on December 28th, 428 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,000 2016, toward the end of his presidency, 429 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,000 he established the Bear’s Ears National Monument. 430 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,000 It was a healing moment between the tribes 431 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,000 in the American Southwest, the 4 corners area, and 432 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,000 the United States Government. It was a recognition, 433 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,000 a handshake across history. That traditional 434 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,000 knowledge, what the tribes know, what native people 435 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,000 live with, can exist simultaneously 436 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,000 with “scientific” knowledge 437 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,000 with the federal agencies. 438 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,000 Dreams started becoming 439 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,000 public policy, and then less than a year later, 440 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,000 on December 4th, 2017, 441 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,000 Donald Trump came to Utah for under 2 hours, 442 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,000 and at the behest of Senator Orrin Hatch, beholden to the fossil fuel 443 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:33,000 industry, gutted Bear’s Ears by 85%, 444 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,000 and cut Grand Staircase 445 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,000 National Monument by half, saying, 446 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,000 “As a real estate person, 447 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,000 1.2 million acres sounds good to me.” And it was open for business. 448 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:53,000 What do we do 449 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,000 in the face of such blatant and bold disregard as we watch 450 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:01,000 The Open Space of Democracy close? 451 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,000 We turn to 452 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,000 our communities, we assess our gifts, 453 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,000 and we offer them up in the name of community. 454 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:17,000 I can tell you I didn’t know what to do. I was so angry. 455 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,000 That’s when I went to Willie. That’s when he said 456 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,000 we have to heal. What I think he meant, in which we've 457 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:29,000 had further conversations, is, if we are going to begin to heal 458 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,000 as a nation, we have to find the source of our pain. 459 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,000 If you have a splinter or a piece of glass in your heel, 460 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,000 before you can really heel, you have to find that splinter. 461 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,000 You have to take out that piece of glass. Otherwise, 462 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,000 it festers. Where is the source 463 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,000 of our pain? Where is the source of our 464 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,000 disconnect? As writers, 465 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,000 how do we begin? For me, I began 466 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,000 in locating someone that I wanted to work with. When I 467 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,000 was teaching, I met a photographer named Fazal Sheikh. 468 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:13,000 He is from this country, he’s American, but he’s been 469 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:17,000 photographing all over the world—Israel, Palestine, places 470 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,000 of dispute, of contention, and war, 471 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,000 including Rwanda, Pakistan…all over the world. 472 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,000 We met for a cup of coffee, and very indelicately 473 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:33,000 I said, without knowing him, “Why don’t you come home?" 474 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:37,000 And he said, “How dare you. 475 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,000 You don’t know who I am.” And I said, “I know your work. 476 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,000 and if you’re going to all of these places in conflict, why don’t you come home, why don’t you 477 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,000 come to Utah? You are needed." 478 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,000 It did not end well. 479 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,000 [laughter] We said goodbye, and I thought, ‘Why didn’t I just 480 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,000 keep my mouth closed?’ That was in May, 481 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,000 2017. The end of July, I got a telephone call. 482 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,000 I said, “Hello?” and he goes, “Damn you!” And I thought, ‘whoops! Robo call!” [laughter] 483 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,000 I said, “Excuse me?” And he goes, “This is 484 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,000 Fazal Sheikh, can I come?” 485 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:21,000 and he did. We went and we talked to the elders. 486 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,000 When he met the spiritual leaders, 487 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,000 he said to the community, “How can I help?” 488 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,000 What beautiful words, ‘how can I help?’ ‘what can we do together?’ 489 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:37,000 For a year, Fazal listened. 490 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,000 We went down repeatedly, and listened. Then when we heard 491 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,000 what was going to happen with the monument being 492 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:49,000 dismantled, there was a 493 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,000 rally at the Utah State Capitol. 494 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,000 What we decided is, we could do the only thing that we knew how to do 495 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:01,000 as a writer and a photographer. We 496 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,000 followed the lines of Camu, when he said, 497 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:09,000 “Sometimes words can be more than ammunitions.” Or, 498 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,000 when he had these pamphlets that he would distribute in Paris 499 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:18,000 during conflict, and so what we did in a matter of 2 weeks, 500 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,000 we found some funding, and Fazal with his photographs, he’d been taking 501 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,000 pictures for the year, we 502 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,000 made, just a brochure, and I share this with you because I think, 503 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,000 you know, how do we act? If I didn’t act, I would be in bed-- 504 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:37,000 so depressed, I cannot tell you. I think it’s 505 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,000 in those moments when you can’t get up in the morning. You’re aware 506 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,000 of what a single imagination can’t do; 507 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:49,000 but imaginations shared, create 508 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,000 collaboration and in collaboration we create 509 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:57,000 community, and in community anything is possible. So, this was the 510 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,000 brochure exposure. We printed 10,000. 511 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,000 We had a local printer; we distributed them 512 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,000 through different grass roots organizations and to the crowd. 513 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:13,000 Then, we gave most of the 514 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,000 brochures tracks to the tribal members 515 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,000 themselves on the res. So, exposure, it talked 516 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:25,000 about the issue, “Establishment of Bear’s Ears National Monument,” 517 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,000 we quoted from the beautiful proclamation from Barack Obama. 518 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,000 This was an open letter to President Donald J. Trump by Willie Grayeyes, 519 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:37,000 who was leader of the Utah Dine Bikeyah, these were 520 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:41,000 examples of what’s happening on the outskirts of Bear’s Ears, 521 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,000 coal, uranium tailings, 522 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,000 fracking, off-road vehicles. I wrote a 523 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,000 piece called, “Boom,” and then, the most important thing, 524 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:57,000 is, we exposed, through Fazal’s…um… 525 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,000 photograph—Does anyone know what this is? 526 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,000 527 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,000 It’s a capped Uranium mine, that is 528 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,000 leaching into the San Juan River and the Colorado River. 529 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,000 I’ve never seen this. It’s hidden. Fazal saw it. 530 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,000 Instinctively, I knew, he would be brave enough 531 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:25,000 to expose what none of us dared to see. 532 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,000 Millions of people have 533 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:34,000 suffered from Uranium tailings leaching into the water system. 534 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,000 10’s of 1,000’s of Navajo minors and Mormon people 535 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,000 are dead from 536 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,000 this particular line. 537 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,000 I want to share with you, and I’ve not done this, but 538 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,000 I feel safe because Jim is the Provost. [laughter] 539 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:57,000 I want to read this, 540 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,000 I’ve read excerpts, but I haven’t read the whole thing. 541 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,000 It’s an angry piece, but I think there are times 542 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,000 when anger is appropriate. 543 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:13,000 I think, because of this piece, I am able to heal. 544 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,000 Because I’ve acknowledged something that I haven’t before. 545 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,000 What I can tell you, is that this 546 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:25,000 piece was actually a very long text. 547 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:29,000 When Fazal came back after flying all 548 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,000 over Utah, and he called me and he said, “Terry, I have been 549 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,000 all over the world, this is the most violent place 550 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,000 I’ve ever seen.” 551 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:45,000 I knew the pieces, 552 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,000 I never dared connect the dots. 553 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,000 [reading] What is beauty 554 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,000 if not stillness? What is stillness if not sight? 555 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:01,000 What is sight if not an awakening? What is an awakening 556 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,000 if not now? The American landscape is under assault, 557 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:09,000 by an administration that cares only about themselves. 558 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:13,000 Working behind closed doors, they are strategically undermining environmental 559 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,000 protections that have been in place for decades, and they’re getting away with it. 560 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,000 In practices of secrecy, in deeds of greed, in acts of 561 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:25,000 violence that are causing pain. Like many, I've 562 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,000 compartmentalized my state of mind in order to survive. Like 563 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:33,000 most, I have also compartmentalized my state of Utah. 564 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:37,000 It is a violence hidden that we all share. 565 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,000 This is the fallout that has entered our bodies. Nuclear bombs 566 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:45,000 tested in the desert, “boom.” These are Uranium tailings 567 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,000 left on the edges of our towns where children play, “boom.” 568 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,000 The war games played, and nerve gas stored in the West desert, “boom.” 569 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,000 These are the oil and gas lines, frack lines, from Vernal to Bonanza 570 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,000 in the Uintah Basin, “boom.” This is Aneth and Montezuma Creek, 571 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:05,000 the oil patches on Indian lands, “boom!” Gut Bear’s Ears, “boom!” 572 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:09,000 Cut Grand Stair Case Escalante in half, “boom!” 573 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,000 And every other wild place that is easier for me to defend than my 574 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,000 own people and species “boom!” The coal and copper mines 575 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,000 I watched expand as a child, Huntington and Kennecott, “boom!” 576 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,000 The oil refineries that foul the air and blacken our lungs in Salt Lake 577 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:29,000 City, “boom!” And the latest scar on the landscape, the tar sands mine 578 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,000 in the Book Cliffs, closed, now hidden, simply by its remoteness, 579 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,000 “boom!” Add the Cisco Desert where trains stop to settle the 580 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,000 radioactive waste they are carrying on to Blanding, “boom!” Move the 581 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:45,000 Uranium tailings from Moab to Crescent Junction, then bury them still hot in 582 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:49,000 the alkaline desert, out of sight, out of mind, “boom!” See 583 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,000 the traces of human indignities on the sand near Topaz Mountain left by the 584 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,000 Japanese Internment Camps, “boom!” President Donald J. Trump 585 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,000 will try to eviscerate Bear’s Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante 586 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,000 Monuments with his pen and poisonous policies. He will stand 587 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,000 tall with other white men who, for generations, have exhumed, looted, and 588 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:13,000 profited from the graves of ancient ones. They will tell you Bear’s Ears 589 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:17,000 belongs to them, “boom!” Consider Senator 590 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:21,000 Orrin Hatch’s words regarding the Bear’s Ears Intertribal Coalition’s support 591 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:25,000 of the Bear’s Ears National Monument, “The Indians, 592 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,000 they don’t fully understand that a lot of the things that they are currently 593 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,000 taking for granted on those lands, they won’t be able to do if it's 594 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,000 made clearly into a monument or a wilderness…” 595 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:41,000 And when he was asked to give examples by a reporter, the Senator said, 596 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,000 “Just take my word for it.” 597 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:49,000 This is a story, a patronizing story, a condescending 598 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,000 story. I see politicians and Mormons discounting the Tribes once 599 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,000 again, calling them “Lamanites,” the rebellious ones against 600 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,000 God, dark-skinned and cursed, that is their story. 601 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,000 Racism is a story. The Book of Mormon is a story 602 00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,000 “boom!” Perhaps, our greatest trauma living in the state of 603 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,000 Utah is the religiosity of the Mormon patriarchy that says 604 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,000 “You have no authority to speak.” Women, 605 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:21,000 Indians, Black People, Brown People, Gay People, Trans, 606 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,000 it is the only the chosen ones who hold the priesthood over us and council 607 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,000 us that the only way to heaven is through them. All my life 608 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,000 I was told I could not speak, that I had no 609 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,000 [crying] voice, no power, except through my father 610 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,000 or my husband, or my bishop, or the general authorities, 611 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:45,000 and then there was the prophet, “boom!” I refused 612 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:49,000 to perpetuate this lie, this myth, this abuse called silence. If 613 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:53,000 birds had a voice, so did I. I would tell a different 614 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,000 story, one of beauty and abundance, not what it means 615 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,000 to endure. Environmental racism is the outcome of 616 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,000 bad stories. A by-product of poverty. In Utah, 617 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,000 yellow cake has dusted the lips of Navajo Uranium workers for 618 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,000 decades who are now sick or dead, “boom!” There is no running 619 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,000 water in Westwater, a reservation town adjacent 620 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:21,000 to Blanding, “boom!” Local municipalities refuse to provide 621 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:25,000 Navajo families with this one basic right, 622 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,000 water. Boom! 623 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,000 But we are not prejudice, “boom!” If you speak of these oversights, call them cruelties, we as Mormons are seen 624 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:37,000 as having betrayed our roots and our people. These are my people, 625 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,000 “boom!” This is who I am, “boom!” 626 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:45,000 A white woman of privilege, born of the covenant. I am not on the outside, 627 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:49,000 but the inside. boom! 628 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,000 It is time to look in the mirror and reflect on the histories that are ours. We are being told 629 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:57,000 a treacherous story that says it is an individual's 630 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,000 right, our hallowed state’s right to destroy what is common to us all: 631 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:05,000 the land beneath our feet, the water we drink, the air 632 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,000 we breathe. Our bodies and the body of the state of Utah are being 633 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:13,000 violated. Our eyes are closed. Our mouths are sealed. 634 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:17,000 We refuse to see or say what we know to be true: 635 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:21,000 Utah is a beautiful violence. 636 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:25,000 Our silence is our death sentence. 637 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,000 The climate is changing. We have a right and responsibility to protect 638 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:33,000 each other. Resistance and insistence before 639 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:37,000 the law. We are slowly dying. We are ignoring the 640 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:41,000 evidence. Awareness is our prayer. Beauty will prevail. 641 00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,000 Native people are showing us the way. It is time to 642 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,000 heal these lands and each other by calling them what they are: 643 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:53,000 Sacred. May wing beats 644 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:57,000 of Ravens cross over us in ceremony. May we recognize our need 645 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,000 of a collective blessing by Earth. May we ask forgiveness 646 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:05,000 for our wounding of land and spirit. And may our right 647 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:09,000 relationship to life be restored as we work together toward 648 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:13,000 a survival shared. A story is awakening. 649 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:17,000 Many stories. We are part of something much larger 650 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:21,000 then ourselves, an interconnected whole that stretches 651 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:25,000 upward to the stars. Coyote in the desert 652 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:29,000 is howling in the darkness, calling forth the pack, 653 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:33,000 lifting up the moon.” 654 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:37,000 Afterwards... 655 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:41,000 [applause] 656 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:45,000 Afterwards, I went and spoke with Jonah Yellowman, 657 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:49,000 who is the Spiritual Advisor of Bears Ears after the gutting, 658 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:53,000 after the cutting of these sacred lands. 659 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,000 I said, “Jonah, what are you feeling? What are you seeing?" 660 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:01,000 He said, “What my elders are telling me,” and 661 00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:05,000 he’s 72, “is that we have to 662 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,000 go deeper.” That is 663 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,000 my question to us tonight: How do we go deeper? 664 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,000 Each in our own way, each in our own 665 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,000 time with the gifts that are ours. 666 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:25,000 In the places we call home. 667 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,000 Where is our love? 668 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:33,000 Where is our outrage? Where is our grief? 669 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:37,000 Where is our community? 670 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:41,000 To the students here, at this extraordinary 671 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,000 University, I would ask you to 672 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,000 find your community. If you haven’t found one yet, 673 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:53,000 build one. And as you build it, 674 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,000 nurture it, support it; 675 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:01,000 that is how we 676 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,000 survive, that is how we thrive. 677 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:09,000 Come home. 678 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:13,000 To where you are in this beautiful, broken 679 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,000 place we call home. 680 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:21,000 It can no longer be about anger, it has 681 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,000 to be about healing. We must go deeper. 682 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:29,000 We do not agree. Tell me a story. 683 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:33,000 I 684 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:37,000 want to close with 685 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:41,000 a story, prefaced by 686 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:45,000 a passage from The Open Space of Democracy. 687 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:49,000 I just want to thank you so much 688 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:53,000 for letting me share these things closest to my heart. I feel 689 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:57,000 free to do that, because I know the people that I love 690 00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:01,000 and revere in the state of Iowa know about 691 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:05,000 homecoming, understand loss, 692 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,000 the prairie, and I know you’re fighting for your lives. 693 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:13,000 [rustling pages] 694 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:17,000 695 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:21,000 “The human heart is the 1st home of democracy. 696 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,000 It is where we embrace our questions, can we be 697 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:29,000 equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with 698 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:33,000 our whole beings, not just our minds, and 699 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,000 offer our attention rather than our opinions? 700 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:41,000 Do we have enough resolve in our hearts, to act 701 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:45,000 courageously, relentlessly, without giving up ever? 702 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:49,000 Trusting our fellow citizens to join with us 703 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:53,000 in our determined pursuit of a living democracy. 704 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:57,000 The heart is the house of empathy, whose door 705 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:01,000 opens when we receive the pain of others. 706 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:05,000 This is where bravery lives. Where we find our medal to give 707 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:09,000 and receive, to love and be loved. To stand in the center 708 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:13,000 of uncertainty with strength, not fear. Understanding 709 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:17,000 this is all there is. The heart 710 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:21,000 is the path to wisdom, because it dares to be vulnerable in the 711 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:25,000 presence of power. Our power lies in our 712 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:29,000 love of our homelands. I want to 713 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:33,000 close with a story that is about 714 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:37,000 my friend, Doug Peacock, who many of you will recognize as 715 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:41,000 the inspiration for the character, 'George Washington 716 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:45,000 Hayduke’ in Edward Abbey’s novel “The Monkey Wrench Gang.” 717 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:49,000 He’s also, um… 718 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:53,000 an amazing advocate for grizzly bears. 719 00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:57,000 I think he and Aldo Leopold would have gotten along. 720 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:01,000 This will take about, 7 minutes, 721 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:05,000 and I just appreciate your generosity. 722 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:09,000 “It is time to weep and sing,” wrote W.H. Auden. 723 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,000 At a low ebb of hope, I ask my friend, Doug Peacock, 724 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:17,000 how he staves off despair. This is the man 725 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:21,000 who kept a map of Yellowstone in the back pocket of his fatigues throughout 726 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:25,000 the war, and would unfold it at night to keep insanity 727 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:29,000 at bay. "Insulate yourself with friends, 728 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:33,000 and seek out wild places,” he said. Which is exactly what I was 729 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:37,000 doing. Seeking out my friend on the other side of Yellowstone, 730 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:41,000 on the day we learned that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service had denied 731 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:45,000 wolverines protection under the Endangered Species Act. 732 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:49,000 While driving from Jackson Hole, Wyoming to Livingston, Montana, 733 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:53,000 I was listening to Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” recomposed by 734 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:57,000 the musician, Max Richter. I love this piece of music, 735 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:01,000 and I love the story behind it. Richter’s favorite piece of 736 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:05,000 music was Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” He’d played it as a 737 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:09,000 musician hundreds of times and had heard it many more times than he’d ever 738 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,000 performed it. But the strangest thing started to occur: the 739 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:17,000 “Four Seasons” had become so commercialized, so trivialized, 740 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:21,000 played in elevators and as the soundtrack for cheap commercials, 741 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:25,000 that he could no longer hear it. It’s beauty had 742 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:29,000 become lost to him, demoted to musical wallpaper. 743 00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:33,000 Max Richter did the unthinkable. 744 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:37,000 He reimagined Vivaldi’s masterpiece and recomposed it 745 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:41,000 so it could be heard once again, at this moment and time. 746 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:45,000 Richter added the base notes, 747 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:49,000 “The Four Seasons is something we all carry around with us,” Richter said, 748 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,000 “it’s everywhere. In a way, we stopped being able to hear it, so 749 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:57,000 this project was about reclaiming the music for me personally. 750 00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:01,000 I wanted to fall in love with it all over again,” he said, “by getting 751 00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:05,000 inside the music and rediscovering it for myself, I was able to take a new 752 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:09,000 path through this well known landscape.” 753 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:13,000 So, I was listening to “The Four Seasons Recomposed” 754 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:17,000 as I was in route to Doug. My mind was moving toward the 755 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:21,000 reverie with the music. It was exactly what I needed to recompose 756 00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:25,000 myself as I was driving through Yellowstone to Montana, 757 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:29,000 inspiring me to reimagine everything. 758 00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:33,000 Our institutions and agencies, 759 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:37,000 churches, universities, hospitals, healthcare, 760 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:41,000 families, as institutions, are no longer working 761 00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:45,000 for us. It is time to reimagine them 762 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:49,000 as movements of direct action. Fierce 763 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:53,000 and compassionate at once. Time to reimagine our 764 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,000 public lands as sanctuaries, refuges, and sacred lands. 765 00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:01,000 Time to rethink what is acceptable, and what is not. 766 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:05,000 I became lost in the music, and then, as I was driving 767 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,000 through the Hayden Valley, the cars in front of me came to an abrupt halt. 768 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:13,000 Bison jam. Hundreds of bison, 769 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:17,000 not only crossing the road, but walking alongside us. 770 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:21,000 I was now barely at a crawl, going 5 miles per hour. 771 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:25,000 I rolled down my window, still listening to “The Four 772 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:29,000 Seasons” with the volume much louder than I realized. The bison 773 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:33,000 started moving closer to the car. [laughter] I started 774 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:37,000 getting nervous, thought about rolling up my window, but then I began 775 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:41,000 noticing the bison turning their heads toward the music, walking 776 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:45,000 even closer to the car. I imagined they were enjoying Vivaldi 777 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:49,000 as I was. [laughter] And I relaxed as we listened 778 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:53,000 to the music together for over a mile. All of us, 779 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:57,000 slowly moving down the road. 780 00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:01,000 I was late to Doug’s house, he was waiting. 781 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:05,000 Luckily, I brought him a nice French Bordeaux. We took 782 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:09,000 the bottle and 2 glasses outside with the view of Paradise Valley. 783 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:13,000 Doug had written a plea on the wolverines behalf 784 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:17,000 a week before. It had been published online in The Daily 785 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:21,000 Beast. He’s received a note from his editor, Chris Dickey. 786 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:25,000 The son of the poet, James Dickey. “I’m sorry,” Chris said, 787 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:29,000 “perhaps this poem from my father will help." 788 00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:33,000 Under a thunderous sky with bolts of lightning adding punctuation, 789 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:37,000 Doug and I read “For The Last Wolverine” out-loud to each other, 790 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:41,000 between sips of wine, alternating between stanzas, 791 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:45,000 with tears streaming down our cheeks. The 792 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:49,000 final lines undid us. 793 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:53,000 “Alone with maybe some dim racial notion of being the last, 794 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:57,000 but none of how much your unnoticed going will mean, 795 00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:01,000 how much the timid poem needs the mindless explosion of your 796 00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:05,000 rage. The glutton’s internal fire, the elk’s heart 797 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:09,000 in the belly, sprouting wings, the pact of the 'blind swallowing 798 00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:13,000 Thing,’ with himself, to eat the world, and not be 799 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:17,000 driven off it—until it is gone, even if it 800 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:21,000 takes forever. I take you as you are 801 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:25,000 and make of you what I will, skunk-bear, carcajou, 802 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:29,000 bloodthirsty non-survivor. Lord, let me 803 00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:33,000 die, but not die…out." 804 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:37,000 Doug and I raised our glasses 805 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:41,000 to the mountains, black clouds billowing all around us, 806 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:45,000 as a swath of red clouds turned pink. 807 00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:49,000 “To wolverine,” Doug said, and then he turned to me with tears in his 808 00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:53,000 eyes, “we lose nothing by 809 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:57,000 loving.” 810 00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:01,000 ["The Four Seasons Recomposed" begins playing] 811 00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:05,000 812 00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:09,000 ♪ 813 00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:13,000 814 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:17,000 815 00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:21,000 816 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:25,000 817 00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:29,000 818 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:33,000 819 00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:37,000 820 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:41,000 821 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:45,000 822 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:49,000 823 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:53,000 824 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:57,000 825 00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:01,000 826 00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:05,000 827 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:09,000 828 00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:13,000 829 00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:17,000 830 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:21,000 831 00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:25,000 832 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:29,000 833 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:33,000 834 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:37,000 835 00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:41,000 836 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:45,000 837 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:49,000 838 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:53,000 839 00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:57,000 840 00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:01,000 841 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:05,000 842 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:09,000 843 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:13,000 844 00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:17,000 845 00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:21,000 846 00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:25,000 847 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:29,000 848 00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:33,000 849 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:37,000 850 00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:41,000 851 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:45,000 852 00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:49,000 853 00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:53,000 854 00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:57,000 855 00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:01,000 856 00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:05,000 857 00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:09,000 858 00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:13,000 859 00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:17,000 Question. Stand. Speak. 860 00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:21,000 Act. Thank you. 861 00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:25,000 [applause] 862 00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:29,000 863 00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:33,000 864 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:37,000 865 00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:41,000 866 00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:48,373