Zion National Park

#OurWorldIsAwesome – Edition 22 | Context on this series – we live in a beautiful world and National Parks are akin to the crown jewels of this planet. These landscapes remind us of the fine balance and complexity woven into the fabric of the world around us. Every time I spend a while inside one of these places, I’m reminded of how precious that balance is, and how much it matters that we try to understand the complexity and our own small role within it. I think that’s what awe really is. We reach for the word “awesome” in the moments something helps us see our own insignificance — and windows into nature do that for me every time. So this is my small way of sharing it, and passing it along. The first thing that hits you at Zion is the red. The canyon walls rise straight up in deep, saturated rust and rose, and the whole place takes on an otherworldly glow. The walls kept reminding me of two other places at once. Their sheer vertical scale — sandstone rising thousands of feet…