50 • LEGACY
BY MADISON WILCOX
What is the solution to the system of equations where God is one line and the world is another? I think it is the top of Forester Pass in the Sierra Nevadas. Surely this should have been the place where Jacob saw the ladder come down from heaven, Surely also the place where Christ went up— God is here, here with the pikas and the skypilot here with the old stones and the Clark’s Nutcrackers And surely He is here with me as I stand on the crest of the pass, the sun reflecting my shadow back across the y-axis of the Sierra Nevadas, and God, the great mathematician himself, standing above me graphite pencil in hand whispering, “Here,” as he stencils in my shadow on the great graph of the world.
