Chewing Sand (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781938846243)

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.

About the Author

Gail Collins-Ranadive, ma, mfa, mdiv, is a retired Unitarian Universalist minister and the author of seven books, including Finding the Voice Inside: Writing as a Spiritual Quest for Women, Light Year: A Seasonal Primer for Spiritual Focus, Inner Canyon: Where Deep Time Meets Sacred Space, and Nature's Calling: The Grace of Place.