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Joshua Tree
Sunday, 29 March 2009 17:10The desert here in Spring can clear your head, shake the junk out and remind you of the glorious state of being insignificant.
I took Friday off, we left as soon as we could and headed out to JTree. The first place we went camping, before we knew each other well. We go at least once a year. We barely were able to get a site - but found one by luck.
We hiked, read, stretched ourselves physically - (10 Miles!), ate, got kinda chilly, gaped at the stars, the quiet, the subtle beauty that is there for the taking if you just sit with it. It is always a promise that is fulfilled. You forget anything petty, there is too much to ponder in a simple Joshua Tree - they are so very fragile(glad that the NFS is working to protect them) and within one of these strange trees - they all look like dancers to me - frozen in mid spin, turn, flip - there is a riot of life sustained - from the insects to the rodents, the birds and snakes that all depend in one way or another on some part of this unassuming creation. Who am I and my silly shit next to that.
Nature and how it has a blind eye and unrelenting purpose - when we leave it alone. I am grateful to witness this - in our hikes, camping and I still cant believe that after 8 years I am still with someone who digs it and craves it as much as I do.
Read a bit of Edward Abbey out there - it fit.
I took Friday off, we left as soon as we could and headed out to JTree. The first place we went camping, before we knew each other well. We go at least once a year. We barely were able to get a site - but found one by luck.
We hiked, read, stretched ourselves physically - (10 Miles!), ate, got kinda chilly, gaped at the stars, the quiet, the subtle beauty that is there for the taking if you just sit with it. It is always a promise that is fulfilled. You forget anything petty, there is too much to ponder in a simple Joshua Tree - they are so very fragile(glad that the NFS is working to protect them) and within one of these strange trees - they all look like dancers to me - frozen in mid spin, turn, flip - there is a riot of life sustained - from the insects to the rodents, the birds and snakes that all depend in one way or another on some part of this unassuming creation. Who am I and my silly shit next to that.
Nature and how it has a blind eye and unrelenting purpose - when we leave it alone. I am grateful to witness this - in our hikes, camping and I still cant believe that after 8 years I am still with someone who digs it and craves it as much as I do.
Read a bit of Edward Abbey out there - it fit.
