Being in a beautiful place like Joshua Tree National Park ensured I took good pictures, not because I am especially handy with the camera but because it's hard to screw up photographing miles of beautiful landscape. From Feb. 19.
It was colder, harsher and more arresting than it looks.
Physics has proved what metaphysical religions have postulated for centuries, nay, millennia: that everything has energy, a life force, if you will, a universal vibration. In scientific terms (I'm going out on a limb here), the atomic structure, the electrons and protons, constantly moving. These things are better explained by students of quantum mechanics, but I remember this point being made in a humanities class I took some years back. It's stayed with me for obvious reasons.