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    Desert Solitaire

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    A lovely thought, a profound moment from someone's life, gave me pause this busy friday afternoon, when it reached me via email. Thought I should share:
     
    From: "Wayne Tyson" <landrest@cox.net>
    Subject: Reconciliation Ecology

    Fellow bit of life:
      
    The transformational event in my life occurred when I was fifteen years of age. My family was impoverished and in mental turmoil. I took walks into the desert alone. On one of these walks, "everything" stopped. The voice of my inner self "spoke" these words: "To reconcile the needs and works of humankind with those of the earth and its life." That was a long time ago, but the voice still is with me.
      
    Fellow listener
    Wayne Tyson, a fellow listener I know from Ecolog-L.
    Tags » Desert Earth life
    • 21 May 2010
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    3 months ago Authorhouse responded:
    Something to ponder. This just proves that taking a walk is some sort of therapeutic exercise. I can attest this myself. When something is bothering me, walking helps me to sort things out.

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