Tasting the juicy red fruit of the Saguaro after a morning’s harvest: a dream come true for me! Listen to “A Taste of Place” here, the story of this great adventure out in the desert, initiated and instructed by two Tohono O’odham, the “Desert People” who have lived on this land for eons. Your practice for this month is to “taste the place” where you live.

I hope my meditative poem takes you right out into the desert to harvest the fruit with us. I describe the sacred O’Odham rituals we were taught to observe before eating the fruit, “pulling down the clouds” to call down the rain as we pulled down the fruit. You can read the story, the poem, and see more photos here.