The anthology project, conceived by Maria Morales McConnell of Del Norte, Colorado and edited by Arthur Washburn and Stewart S. Warren, is a living document and a deed to the land belonging to those bold enough to live their stories and share them straight. Included here are poems, essays and flash fiction written by people spanning eighty years in age, over two thousand miles in distance, and a multitude of cultural and class differences, but having one central experience in common-a desire to walk to the river and find other like-hearted human beings gathered there. This collection, then, is for people who read with their whole body and mind.