> Outside, the sky over Escalante Valley, Utah, is blinding blue and cloudless, I don't enjoy articles that preamble about the lack of clouds in the sky. Here

> Outside, the sky over Escalante Valley, Utah, is blinding blue and cloudless, I don't enjoy articles that preamble about the lack of clouds in the sky. Here's the meat: > Kevin drowned in a kayaking accident at a friend’s birthday party. At 14, he had just published his autobiography. He was making plans to expand his 350-acre farm to buy up surrounding farms to convert to regenerative agriculture. He was saving money to build a house for his parents and another for his autistic older brother. He was polishing a movie script and a series of children’s books teaching business literacy for kids. He was looking for a celebrity to endorse his line of luxury toiletries made from the milk of his goat herd. He was breeding heritage turkeys. He was writing guest essays for notable bloggers higher up the political food chain. And, in his spare time, he had the task of grading the road to his farm using the John Deere tractor he bought new for himself for his 11th birthday. and > A friend once remarked, “You guys aren’t even raising him; you’re just kind of the audience watching him raise himself.”