Category Archives: Desert

We Are All Invited —

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Touch2Touch

  Come, come whoever you are, Wanderer, worshipper, lover of learning, It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times. Come, come yet again, come. —-     Jelalu’ddin … Continue reading →

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Arise, My Love!

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Touch2Touch

(Note to self: Keep camera by bedside ready to go. Get up earlier, and get out of bed. Northampton may not be the desert, but surely it can muster up a sunrise! Go outside and look at the new day before … Continue reading →

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The Mountains Touch the Clouds

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Touch2Touch

In a world where multi-tasking is a goal and priority, where we twitter unceasing to the empty air, where our lives are open Facebooks and if we are not busy from morning until night we become disoriented, it is profoundly … Continue reading →

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Serendipity: Today’s Story

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Touch2Touch

The word “serendipity” was coined by Horace Walpole in the 18th century. He said he formed it from a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip, in which the heroes were continually making happy discoveries by accident — and, … Continue reading →

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Just-Sitting in the Desert

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Touch2Touch

The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. —-  Li Po (Meditation has been a subject on sister blog A View from … Continue reading →

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Sequence of a Sunset

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Touch2Touch

We went out into the desert for a very special picnic, a farewell to the sun and a farewell to Arizona. (Yes, I know the sun leaves every day and returns, and the farewell to Arizona may be permanent — … Continue reading →

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