Chewing Sand An Eco-Spiritual Taste of the Mojave Desert |
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| Author:
| Collins-Ranadive, Gail |
| ISBN: | 978-1-938846-38-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2015 |
| Publisher: | Homebound Publications
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $22.95 |
Book Description:
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What happens when an Easterner who needs trees, hates heat, and doesn't gamble spends a year living in Las Vegas? Follow the author's reflections as she comes to appreciate the surrounding desert so deeply that she returns seven years later to hear more of the Mojave's message. Share in the process as this desert reveals itself as both a macrocosm and a microcosm of the major issues facing us today. For as a sacred text set in the perspective of deep time and clarified by silence, the...
More DescriptionWhat happens when an Easterner who needs trees, hates heat, and doesn't gamble spends a year living in Las Vegas? Follow the author's reflections as she comes to appreciate the surrounding desert so deeply that she returns seven years later to hear more of the Mojave's message. Share in the process as this desert reveals itself as both a macrocosm and a microcosm of the major issues facing us today. For as a sacred text set in the perspective of deep time and clarified by silence, the Mojave landscape has the power to move us humans from an ego-self to an eco-Self awareness.