Farland Fish

I could not describe this. I could no more describe this than I could describe what it is to be alive. Farland is a creature who embodies positive change; her whole being revolved and evolves in this direction. She flits between worlds, living off the land and traversing the country with her dogs and her love and her ability to see beauty, and to find a home, wherever she is. She is not an ambassador of life, but the very spirit of it.

Farland is an inspiration. She lives in a tiny hand-hewn cabin outside Moab; she gathers her own food and collects only the water she needs. She tends to children and animals with the intensity of attention and fierce caring of a four-legged mother. She's politically active but her campaigning is secondary to her enactment of what the world could be: she lives out her beliefs and her persuasiveness is not that of an elegant orator but of someone living a life of such integrity that it's impossible not to want the same. She has touched more lives than she could ever know, and she allows herself to be touched by them.

I could come up with a million miniature examples, from the gatherings she's hosted to her cross-country journeys to her spontaneous offers of generosity and trust, but these would sum to only a fraction of the power of how she 'brings about positive change.' Go meet her. You'll see.