Sometimes, your neglected truth comes hurling towards you, seemingly out of nowhere.

I broke out of The Box. Some imperceptible cracks had appeared, letting in the faintest slivers of light.

                                         In Native American folklore, Raven brings light back to a world plunged in darkness.

It's generally assumed that because this is the desert, the climate is pretty much oppressively hot all of the time, with no life-sustaining qualities whatsoever.

Sometimes running with wolves is the only answer                                                

This desert is full of wabi-sabi. A classical Japanese concept that permeates aesthetics, metaphysics, design and spirituality, a definition of wabi-sabi is deliberately and necessarily elusive.

I always recoiled at the mention of the word ‘community’. In my experience it always seemed contrived, like a children’s TV presenter. It brought to mind a rictus smile of enthusiasm (mine), coupled with expectation from and obligation to the community in question.