Why are we drawn to deserts? In our minds, even if we never make the journey.

From Old Testament times and beyond people have spent time in deserts, found space in the silence, sought counsel with the wind. For us today there are many places where we might find solitude, even in our bustling cosmopolitan world, if we are prepared to search them out, and in all of them, to some degree, we come face to face with ourselves.

But the desert is different in the way it confronts us and exposes us...