Graham, Ronnie Lee

Growing up in a farming community alongside the Missippi river filled me with a sense of adventure. I would look at maps to see where that ever-moving brown water may carry me. I traced the route downstream and pictured the people I might meet. In my mind, I took that trip a hundred times. In the library, when I discovered Mark Twain, I took that trip along with Huck and Tom. Today, viewing Pikes Peak through the window near my writing desk, I consider how wonderful God's creation is and renew that feeling.