The Desert

In which I share some thoughts from John C. Van Dyke, who wrote a book called "The Desert" over 100 years ago after traveling around the southwest United States.

With photos from the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert.

If you haven't seen the video that this is a response to, take a look at it!

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[MadMustard]

You give great voice to writing. You should narrate books on tape, you're a natural.

[Kedoke]

Thanks, MM. Yeah, I enjoy the story-telling.

[TexanCyclist]

& yet the crow comes on my porch & whispers themes for videos I need to make. Doves & cardinals light at my feet, a meal to partake. The doe sends her fawns to hide where I sit when she hears sounds that trouble her spirit. We can choose to give or we can choose to take.

[Kedoke]

Thank you, 7L -- and thanks for stopping by.

[Kedoke]

Touche.

[Kedoke]

Yeah, and surface answers also save us from having to struggle with all the complex, and (seemingly) contradictory facets of our experience.

[Pazma1]

You forgot potato eatin' and beer swillin' ya dumb yank.

[pennilesscripple]

seems we only want simple answers

plucked from the surface

great truths force us

to look too closely at ourselves

[Kedoke]

Isn't that a great line? I've just been reading about how we (in general) no longeer even look for great truths, or even think great truths exist, for that matter. Thanks for inviting us all on the search.

[Kedoke]

Thanks, you clover-pickin' leprechaun. (Uh oh - I'm trying to be funny again . . .)