Currently working in my next literary short. It takes place in the Arizona desert. It is a landscape that is as beautiful as it is dangerous. Barren and dry to some but if you look hard it is magnificent and the nights carry a sky that is abundant with stars. We spend so little time looking up these days. I would encourage anyone to spend a night in any one of the U.S. deserts and just look up. You will drift to sleep seeing a vast canopy of stars amidst a deep velvet backdrop. It will surely change you, if only just a bit.
I learned one of my greatest lessons as a man in an old broken down home sat in a handmade chair overlooking the desert and encouraged me to close my eyes. A few seconds later he asked me to open them again. As I did so, he asked me what had changed. He took only a few seconds to reflect on my furrowed brow as he said, "Everything out there got a few seconds older. Somewhere the hot stagnant air blew a few grains of sand across the landscape and caused a beetle to change its path. a cactus opened a blossom or cracked from the heat. Everything around us and we with it, are constantly changing. The only constant in life is change. If you can embrace that, you will have opened up yourself to one of the greatest adventures that life can offer you."
Throughout my life I have often reflected on those words. Life has a tendency to trip you up on occasion. Being able to be flexible can help you as you manage along the dusty path that we all trod. If we are lucky and are listening to what is being taught on those difficult occasions, we generally can come out in a better place.
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