The trip was a mild success for everyone. I needed a lot more time to accomplish what I needed to do. The remote access tools I installed have already come in handy on my first day back home though! That should be test enough that they were needed. With the holiday shipping season coming up I have a feeling that it will be even more important for me to be able to access this systems directly.
I have never really thought of the desert as anything but desolate space. A barren land for the vultures. On this excursion I think I felt how Alice Walker must have felt when she “saw” the desert:
I am so thankful I have seen
The Desert
And the creatures in the desert
And the desert Itself.
The desert has its own moon
Which I have seen
With my own eye.
There is no flag on it.
Trees of the desert have arms
All of which are always up
That is because the moon is up
The sun is up Also the sky
The Stars Clouds None with flags.
If there were flags,
I doubt the trees would point.
Would you?
It was beautiful.
Poem from - Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self