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Letter From the Desert: Enter Summer
The lesser nighthawks are back. They fly in the evening, as the air temperature cools just enough to lure flying insects from the shade. My first summer…
Chris Clarke
May 23
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Letter From the Desert: Thank you, Phil
I’m kind of blown out of the water this month after learning that my old friend Phil Klasky has died. I met Phil in the early 1990s when he walked into…
Chris Clarke
May 8
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Letter From the Desert: Joshua Trees need you NOW
Personal note: What a couple of weeks it’s been! I had to triage my waking life schedule and the issue of this newsletter I owed you last weekend didn’t…
Chris Clarke
Apr 22
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Letter From the Desert: The Belt of Venus
There is a moment when the evening sky in the east stratifies into bands of different color. It is as if each section of the atmosphere has a different…
Chris Clarke
Apr 12
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Letter From the Desert: Hot and Dry
So April is here, right on schedule as always, and with her comes the balmy Spring weather to which the Mojave Desert will apparently need to become…
Chris Clarke
Apr 6
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Letter From the Desert: Wind
Went for a hike yesterday, the first moderately long one since my injury, and as I was mindful of maximizing exercise while minimizing reinjury I picked…
Chris Clarke
Mar 22
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Letter From the Desert: Planting
Here’s how you replenish the Earth: you carry a long-handled shovel out into the incinerated desert. You might be asked to carry it a mile out and back…
Chris Clarke
Mar 15
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Letter From the Desert: Rain
Today was about edges. Fifteen minutes after leaving home I texted back: “It is raining in Joshua Tree.” There had been flawless blue sky at home. Her…
Chris Clarke
Mar 6
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Letter From the Desert: Realpolitik
Amazing how the old reflexes come back. What has it been, 30 years? 35? Quite a number of years since the last time I semiconsciously calculated my…
Chris Clarke
Feb 28
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Letter From the Desert: Oh, Amargosa
Before we start, a note: I know that it’s sometimes jarring to get email from a list to which you’ve subscribed using the free option and find that…
Chris Clarke
Feb 21
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Letter From the Desert: Wild Nevada on the Solar Chopping Block
Folks, I am angry
Chris Clarke
Feb 15
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Letter From the Desert: Joshua tree
Grandmother tree. Messenger from the time of mastodons. You bear witness to a desert that has grown past you. You observe from the ledge to which you…
Chris Clarke
Feb 7
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