Debra Gordon-Hellman

Thank you, Paul.  Anyone looking for a place to travel?  Paul, I invite the Permie community to visit Alabama, come to Birmingham, Montgomery, & Selma.  Powerful experiences await by visiting the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s experiential museum, the radical sculpture park across the street in historic Kelly Ingram Park- staging ground for many demonstrations and to this day used for rallies and demonstrations for peace and justice, and the 16th Street Baptist Church where the 4 Little Girls were murdered.  If you’re a baseball nut, also take advantage of the Negro Southern League Museum.  Read Just Mercy, & visit EJI’s Legacy Museum & Memorial Park In Montgomery.  There is also the Rosa Parks Museum & The home of the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Then it’s on to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.  Unfortunately, the struggle, the inequities, & destructive effects of racism continue everywhere.
https://www.bcri.org/
https://www.bcri.org/https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/
  Debra from Birmingham but living in rural, intentional Alabama community, Common Ground circa 1978.  

I agree that no place can ever give the feeling of the desert, but can any space ever truly give the feeling of any other space? All are unique and some touch us more than others. I grok the desert as well as other environments, e.g. have a special connection to the ocean too and a deep affinity for my present home environment--rural farmland near a beautiful free-flowing river perfect for rock-hopping when the water is low + swimming holes & waterfalls. Yes, words ARE really insufficient.

How will you send 4 pies when I have it on good authority from LaFayette Doodleberry that there is only one Huckleberry left as you
can see for yourself!
Ah shucks, by its very nature, your redundant meaningless drivel challenge, though surely conjuring some very interesting submissions, is contributing to my procrastination affliction.