The desert
Mystical logic
It’s not hard to say what I find beautiful about the desert. The desert is an underwater landscape drained of water. It is a lunar landscape with humming air. What’s more difficult is to pin down what I find off-putting about it.
I was in Joshua Tree for a day this week and thought about it a lot. How the desert quietly hums to my …
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