The life of adventure is the only life that makes sense . . .

"The life of adventure is the only life that makes sense . . .

"Adventure interpreted broadly, of course - to include not only physical action, exploration, but also human love, ideas and ideals, the arts, and the common and daily motion and conflict and trouble of everyday people doing the world's hard work, making everything else possible."

Edward Abbey

Photos: Desert Pool at sunrise, Desert Paintbrush, Prickly-Pear Cactus; Moab area, UT, April 18-19, 2015

Entering the Interior Desert

"This mystical wisdom will occasionally so engulf a person in its secret abyss that she will have the keen awareness of being brought into a place far removed from every creature. She will accordingly feel that she has been led into a remarkably deep and vast wilderness, unattainable by any human creature, into an immense, unbounded desert, the more delightful, savorous, and loving, the deeper, vaster, and more solitary it is."

St. John of the Cross
16th century Spanish mystic

Photos: (Top) Looking out through the North Window at Turret Arch at sunrise; (Middle) Desert Paintbrush and "Wall Street"; (Bottom) Balanced Rock at sunset. All three photos were taken in Arches National Park, UT, on April 18-20, 2015