Dreams Of The Magic Bus
Why I can't let go of "Into The Wild", and why perhaps you can't, either.
Ten days after a former friend of mine appeared on my phone via stutter-step Zoom, put on a set of reading glasses, and stumbled through a pre-written paragraph about how this will be your last day with the company, my son and I stood at the face of Salvation Mountain.
“Chris was here,” he said.
“Yes.”
“No, I mean, he was right here. He stood right here.…