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Thoughts From My Journal – Sonoran Desert
1-27: I noted that the plants cactus seeds choose to settle next to are called nurse-plants, and I’m beginning to think this whole desert is my collective nurse biome. I just spent another couple hours on the ridge and the trails going to and from it. On the way up I...![Thoughts From My Journal – Desert Seeds](https://www.caminobaybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Palo-Verde-allison-astorga-0YXqtPukQSE-unsplash.jpg)
Thoughts From My Journal – Desert Seeds
1-26: I have discovered who initiates the intimacy of the close relations I have spoken of. Not surprisingly, it is the cactus; out of the millions of seeds cast to their fates every year only a small minority germinate and grow. Those with the good fortune to land...![Thoughts From My Journal – Organ Pipe National Monument](https://www.caminobaybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/OrganpipeCactus.jpg)
Thoughts From My Journal – Organ Pipe National Monument
*1-22: [Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument] I just returned from over an hour’s walk around a lovely trail, one I know I’ve mentioned on earlier visits, the one I always walk several times depending on how long I’m here. I recently downloaded a short essay from close...![A Grand Mystery](https://www.caminobaybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Hare-Sept23-2021.jpg)
A Grand Mystery
I don’t fear falling into anthropomorphism when I think as I did yesterday. The label is used erroneously far more often than not, it seems to me. I will cheerfully call it anthropomorphism when I read on my almond milk container these words: “Shake me up. After...![Presence](https://www.caminobaybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Saguaro-Sept21-2021.jpg)