Desert Blooms
More rare than a blue moon is the Anza-Borrego Desert (the largest park in contiguous United States) in full bloom. If you have yet to see, feel, smell and hear it in your life, make the trip this spring - or like NOW, because desert flowers don’t last long.
For three days and three nights last week my friend Claire, a shaman and acupuncturist and I sat, walked, talked and silenced in the full regalia of the flowering desert. It was magnificent.
Those of you who subscribe to my monthly BIG Ideas Newsletter will get a full-length article on the wisdom available to us from deep experiences in nature. To whet your appetites, here is a snippet.
I learned to discern the differences between the sound of a fly and that of a bee.
When swallows mate, one of them is very loud. I wonder which one it is.
I was reminded that great abundance often follows great rain. Remember that rain in the desert can be a tumultuous event.
I learned that silence can be very loud; one can actually hear it.
A three and a half inch caterpillar can eat the leaves off a good size plant in about an hour.
Our obsession with focus leads us to miss a great deal of beauty, some of it very subtle.
Humans are fragile creatures outside their highly controlled environments.
The desert teaches humility - sometimes gently, sometimes by force.
More to come…
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