Tuesday, April 16, 2019

First Paragraph

landscape photography of mountains

I have lived in the Sonoran Desert since I was a boy and unless I get unlucky, I will die here. My home is a web of dreams. Thousands move here each year under the banners of the New West or the Sunbelt. This is the place where they hope to escape their pasts - the unemployment, the smoggy skies, dirty cities, crush of human numbers. This they cannot do. Instead, they reproduce the world they have fled. I am drawn to the frenzy of this act.

- From Blue Desert by Charles Bowden


[Photo by Robert Murray at Unsplash]

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