31/365- The Desert Moon

Mobile Art by Tracey Grumbach

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. ― Bob Moorehead, Words Aptly Spoken

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A realization I had one evening this week-

The desert makes even the moon seem small.

We are so little on this earth of ours.  Even more reason to live big.

xo

Red Rock Canyon, Nevada

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,

places to play in and pray in where nature

may heal and give strength to body and soul.

~John Muir

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert.

You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for,

or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise.

The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you

like great gospel music or Neil Young.

~Anne Lamott

I had to live in the desert before I could understand 

the full value of grass in a green ditch.

~Ella Maillart

I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all 

as a young girl, and I was completely surprised 

that the desert stole my heart to the extent that it did.

~Terri Windling