Knee Deep in the River

Knee Deep in the River

by Paul Kowalewski

Almost every day I talk about the abundance of riches I experience living out here in this beautiful desert wilderness.

It looks so empty, but it is filled with life – brilliant sunshine, majestic mountains, pristine blue skies, hummingbirds in my garden, flowers blooming on cacti, a night so clear that it seems like day, even a waterfall in a high canyon flowing out toward the desert floor.

In my life in the desert, I try to live every day by cultivating an attitude of mindfulness, paying attention to the revelations that constantly bubble up out of each moment in this beautiful wilderness.

In response to my posts, I often get inquiries like the one I received yesterday from a man who said that he could understand how I might find deeper peace and spiritual refreshment living in a place like I do.

But he went on to say that he lives about as afar away from a Desert Retreat House as you can possibly get. He lives back East – in a high-rise apartment in a big city. It has been a long, cold, lonely, icy, snowy, winter, which has left him feeling pretty “dried up.”

So while spiritual refreshment may be possible in this beautiful desert wilderness, he wondered how any of my experiences could possibly apply to him and his life?

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