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Desert Oracle Radio

Campfire Tales on a Half-Moon Night

Desert Oracle Radio

Ken Layne

Places & Travel, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.9852 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

From our Campfire Stories in Joshua Tree on May 23, 2026, here’s a special one-hour edition of Desert Oracle Radio live from the desert behind the Joshua Tree Retreat Center, with the High Desert's own Herb Benham IV opening the campfire festivities with a couple of proper cowboy songs. Ravens, rattlesnakes and other characters appear early and often in the stories & fables that follow.

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The The

0:23.6

The The

0:40.3

The Well, ancient waterways hidden from the deserts, fed families, thousand years or more, food was heaven sent, sunlight or sacrament, yeah, peace pair of now, no one was keeping score.

1:28.4

Well, some

1:29.4

Shoshone queen, fortune flaming kerosene,

1:33.3

guarded by Mahavi greens,

1:35.3

whose eyes like lantern shine.

1:37.7

Buried our laments,

1:39.9

deep within the panamance,

1:42.1

turned delusion in the sense.

1:46.4

Then she freed our minds.

1:52.2

We're flesh and bone, but not alone.

2:01.0

Like an old friend who'll call you on the phone, there's always more good things in store There's water underneath the desert floor

2:05.0

Well she forged me a knife in a furnace of eternal life

2:12.8

She said fortune be my wife everything between she said Don't search too hard turns up like a tarot card finds

2:22.3

you when you're off your guard said my shoshone queen well she danced across the dunes read the winds like

2:32.8

they were roos i could hear the ancient tune she sighed into the breeze

2:37.4

answered prayer for rain there the lightning silver vein cast away what doubts remain

2:44.5

said ablaze the trees we're flesh and born, but not alone

2:52.7

Like an old friend, he'll call you on the phone

2:57.0

There's always more good things in store

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