If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
“Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.”
“We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.”