Photo credit: George Steinmetz The Desert Hides a Well
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Immersion into the strange, stark beauty of one of the world’s great deserts can lead to unexpected insights. While on pilgrimage to a monastery in the great saguaro desert of Arizona I took a walk the length of two Sabbath days’ journeys outside the monastery gates. It was mid-afternoon, the sun at its zenith of intensity as it dropped westward in the brassy sky. Read more