Chewing Sand: An Eco-Spiritual Taste of the Mojave Desert

by Gail Collins-Ranadive

What happens when an Easterner who needs trees, hates heat, and doesn’t gamble spends a year living in Las Vegas? Follow the author’s reflections as she comes to appreciate the surrounding desert so deeply that she returns seven years later to hear more of the Mojave’s message. Share in the process as this desert reveals itself as both a macrocosm and a microcosm of the major issues facing us today. For as a sacred text set in the perspective of deep time and clarified by silence, the Mojave landscape has the power to move us humans from an ego-self to an eco-Self awareness.

122 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 2014

Reviews

[Renny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Purely

… a gem of a book. A book that is packed with beauty, foot as well as spiritual paths and scenery described so clearly that one can walk along with the author, as well as be flooded by the scenes of similar places one has been.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a lovely book, but not at all what I expected or wanted. The meditations were thought provoking, but did not bring me any closer to the desert I wanted to read about. There were small hints of what it was like, but the author often seemed to ramble in ways that didn't seem connected to the desert at all.