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# Wild Times
- URL: https://www.adamsowards.net/wild-times/
- Published: 2022-06-21T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T16:20:16.000Z
- Author: Adam M. Sowards
- Tags: essays, essay, publication, 2022, barzakh magazine, frank church river of no return wilderness, wilderness, history, taylor ranch, education, semester in the wild

"Wild Times," *Barzakh Magazine*, Issue 15 (Summer 2022).

> But I realize that time isn’t a refuge any more than the wilderness is an escape from people. You cannot go into it or out of it. You cannot choose to participate in or avoid time. Time beats on in a constant, connected continuum. Standing in Cliff Creek, the collapsing of divisions tells me this is so. I’ve escaped nothing, because I’m participating fully in the wild times that swirl here, now, then and always.

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