The weekend before finals, my dear friend Lena and I decided to spend a day in Joshua Tree National Park. I generally take Mark Twain's words very seriously and never let my schooling interfere with my education. Thankfully, Lena has gotten used to me following her around with a camera. I think we were searching for something in the desert that day, and I do believe we found it.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.”
