Archive for February 5, 2006
Into The Sun
A few hundred feet above Palm Canyon, the silence begins to sink in. I first noticed the stillness as I woke from a night of deep, dreamless sleep. There were songs in my head, and songs in the trees. Just outside my window, chirps and warbles of every aviary denomination sang praise to the early…
Read MorePermanent Vacation
There’s something about the desert… There’s something about the desert that keeps me coming back. I first visited Palm Springs in 1997, just a few weeks after moving to New York City. I was dating a woman who worked in Joshua Tree National Park, and spent a few days camping there. (I ended up turning…
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