Stairway to Heaven- Joshua Tree Trip report part 1 of 2
Stairway to Heaven- Joshua tree trip report part I of 2 What is an experience of the desert? Does it involve art? No. Terror? No. Heightened consciousness? No. Does it involve drugs, and death, and drama? Yes. I wanted to go to the Desert to see the stars but it was so much more than that. I know that I would have great conversations with my family, possibly a few meals. Maybe I’d get a connection to nature, and enjoy other people’s connection to nature. I had a pocket full of cigarettes a head full of dreams, a wallet full of dollars, and my suitcase full of clothes, and money is paper, so I suppose I found spirituality in the desert if you could call that Devil’s play spirituality. Would I connect with my family? That remains to be seen. Tuesday After a loathsome flight from Providence to Baltimore to San Diego, which involved a declension into primitive subhuman manners, we arrived in San...