People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
When I was a boy of fourteen,
my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished
at how much he had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain
I spent some time at Twentynine Palms CA in the service and I liked and respected the desert. Your picture makes me want to head that general direction again. These wide open areas really make you feel small, in a freeing kind of way.