All That Air Between Us
When I moved to Colorado for love, Joe Walsh was always on the radio.
This was an alternate ending to “Mine,” an essay published in 2022 on Joyland. Today, I’m sharing the standalone piece it became.
When I moved to Colorado for love, Joe Walsh was always on the radio. No matter the station, there was his gratitude: Life’s been good to me so far. The patron saint of Colorado, all these years later, I say, under a wide Texas sky.
Molly Ivins once said that the sky is bigger in Texas because the trees are so small. A raw truth unearthed by loss or less. She said that in the same breath that she said she loved this state.
