Beginnings

"Every writer knows that the choice of a beginning for what he will write is crucial not only because it determines much of what follows but also because a work's beginning is, practically speaking, the main entrance to what it offers." -Edward Said Beginnings

We've been meaning to start this for quite some time. Trouble was, we couldn't think of an appropriate blog name. After all, a good name says as much about the purpose of what we're writing as the posts within. 

Today brought a flash of inspiration. I was re-reading part of Wallace Stegner's Wilderness Letter, a poignant plea for the preservation of an idea called 'wilderness'. Thus "Wilderness Letters" became a blog. We don't expect this blog to be ground-breaking or earth-shattering. We don't expect to accumulate masses of readers, or to reach people who could enact policies or laws that would benefit our wilderness spaces. We simply want to tell our story, about how and where and when we step outside, and how we understand what nature is.