A Hundred Deserts…

Posted on November 11, 2013 by admin

Excavating at the Great Pyramids of Giza (Photo: Emily O'Dell)

Trekking through Turkmenistan (Photo: Emily O'Dell)

Traveling from Afghanistan to Mali–and many places in between–I’ve often felt like I’m passing through a hundred deserts. The Sahara, the Kyzyl Kum, the Karakum. Though each desert is different, each one is my favorite place to be…

Go ahead: ask me!
Ask me about Love,
and I will tell you the essence of madness.
Ask me of an intellect gone mad,
and I will show you a soul departed for good.
Ask me of a hundred calamities,
of a hundred life transformations.
Ask me of a hundred deserts engulfed in fire.
Ask me of a hundred oceans red with blood…

— Rumi

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