Quote for Today: Patrick Jennings
Through the window, I saw the beautiful world outside: the sky, the sun, the cacti, the rocks, and the dirt. How I longed to return to it! I licked at …
Quote for Today: Franz Kafka
Your will is free means: it was free when it wanted the desert, it is free since it can choose the path that leads to crossing the desert, it …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #15: Capitol Reef National Park via Amazing Places on our Planet
Day 15 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series is a fly-over of Capitol Reef National Park in Utah by Milosh Kitchovitch of Amazing Places on our Planet. His stunning drone footage …
Quote for Today: Mary Hunter Austin
There are many areas in the desert where drinkable water lies within a few feet of the surface, indicated by the mesquite and the bunch grass ( Sporobolus airoides ). …
Quote for Today: Benjamin Alire Sáenz
I looked out the window at the black clouds ahead of us. I opened the back window and smelled the rain. You could smell the rain in the desert even …
Picturing Healing Energy: Paintings by Agnes Lawrence Pelton
I’ve recently returned to painting and, searching for inspiration, ran across Agnes Pelton’s extraordinary transcendental paintings, images full of energy balanced with a cool serenity. She has quickly become one …
Portraits of a Nation: The Tenacious Beauty of Sudan
Did you know that Sudan contains more pyramids than Egypt? There is much beauty hidden in this war torn land. Sudan is largely a country of desert, the Sahara reaching …
From the Trail: A Walk at Lake Brownwood State Park
It is easy to miss delightful things when we only accept and cultivate experiences that we expect to be life-changing. Last summer, my husband and I stayed one night at …
Quote for Today: Vera Nazarian
The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. The …
Half Buried in the Sand: Remembering Kolmanskop
Humans react profoundly to images of places, natural or man-made. Why are we moved by locations we have never visited? From the mystical glow of the Aurora Borealis to the …