Jack Loeffler, dear friend and confidante for the likes of Cactus Ed Abbey, Gary Snyder, Carlos Castenada, Rina Swentzell and Juan Estevan Arrellano, has this to say to us: “I like to think of [deserts] as gardens of cognition… Deserts have a lot of open space, and their inhabitant –floral, faunal, and otherwise–live in less crowded conditions [where they call out to one another]. Those of us ignominously known as ‘desert rats’ are lured to deserts just as pollinators are lured to blossoms, perchance that our consciousness may itself blossom to drop a seed here or there to possibly bloom into a mighty notions, or simply satisfy the deep urge to linger in life, to ruminate within the larger garden of cognition.”
Published by the University of Arizona Press fall 2020
