CONTENTSDesert Fireworks Sun Worship Kachina Chants Fossil Song Canyon at Night Desert Fire The Fire Within Sand Sand Tracks Syzygy Grains of Sand Desert Eye Desert Meteor Jubilee Sacred Feathers Desert Dream Sand Whispers Sky Song Desert Bloom Sunset Shades Old Peyote Desert Chant Ancient Fires Desert Mandala Where Feathers Meet The Threads That Link Us Earth and Sand Future Landscape? |
During part of my youth I lived in the southwestern USA. Even though I was in an air-conditioned suburb of Phoenix, Arizona I was also keenly aware that the green mirage our technology had created was but a temporary illusion. When walking past the irrigated outskirts of Mesa or Sedona I started to sense that desert landscapes were far older than any human civilization. I also came to believe that the desert would outlast us. Our civilization, as it exists today, is not sustainable. This is a series of speculations about the desert, our place in it, and its multiple facets.  |