Nomad exploring life wherever I am
Sunday, the day of rest. The day to relax, to recharge. The day to appreciate the moments as we’re in them, instead of thinking ahead to what tomorrow might bring. I offer these images to relax you, to recharge you, and to remind you that everything is fine just the way it is. A sunset …. is what our lives should be: quiet, noble and unhurried. C. L. Rawlins
Death Valley. When I was growing up, I had zero desire to see what this place was all about. I knew it was desert, hot and dry, and those were two words that never had encouraged me to go. I was a water girl, beaches and surf. More than two decades in California growing up and I never went to Death Valley. Never wanted to. And then my friend sent me a message that she was going to be in Death Valley and why not come down in November? I thought about it overnight, checked the November weather averages, and…
Rocks might seem like a weird topic for Sunday Serenity, but it makes sense if you think about it a bit more. Rocks are persistent things; they were here before you and me and they will be here long after we’re gone. The wind and rain lash them mercilessly for millennium, and still they persist. They get uplifted by earthquakes, twisted by tectonic plate movements and still they persist. And, surviving all that, they are beautiful. So are you. We are made to persist… that’s how we find out who we are. Tobias Wolff
Of all the places in New Mexico, this has to be the most interesting and most fragile. It’s a massive area of gypsum sand, in the middle of a windy basin between two mountain ranges, the Sacramento Mountains 30 miles to the east, and the San Andres Mountains 20 miles to the west. Because it’s sand and there’s wind, it moves, very slowly, changing all the time. There is an eight-mile road that takes you to the heart of these pure white dunes, and that short drive definitely takes you on a fantastic ride. Here’s the road about 2 miles…
The place where I’m staying this week, Oliver Lee State Park, is at the base of the western side of the Sacramento Mountains, a bit south of Alamogordo, New Mexico. It’s a beautiful spot, with mountains on one side and views as far as the eye can see on the other. I had the feeling as soon as I turned off the highway and onto Dog Canyon road that this was going to be an amazing place. Just look at those mountains! And I wasn’t disappointed! I got to my site just before the rain started, and the wind kicked…