The Now is the child for Jess and Oracle Radio.

The voice of the Jesuit.

Thank you. article radio. The bus of the desist. Night has fallen on the desert. Night has fallen on the desert.

And tonight you will hear many mysteries of the desert.

Some are cruel and terrible,

others sublime.

And a persistent view

remain inexplicable by

our current metrics of understanding.

Desert is wilderness stripped bear,

and when left alone, it's creation and perfection.

The landscape is vast and is visible.

The geology raw and exposed the plants and animals in an ideal proportion.

Freshwater is generally in limited supply,

but that has never stopped life from thriving in these lands of little rain.

Our own species has always been fond of these harsh and arid places.

The first civilizations rose up from desert sands, Mesopotamia, and ancient Egypt.

The wilderness of antiquity was wild desert. That's what they meant.

And that's where our philosophers and our prophets went to meditate on mounteops, to abandon society for a while

and sleep under the stars, or within limestone caves, to argue with devils and commune with the angels.

There were many river valley civilizations in the North American desert too.

Long before our current mass of outlet malls and cell towers and interstates.

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