Mountain, without & within

The physical fields of great austerities have been the desert and the mountains. Both physical contexts remove society and the ego but in different ways, throug...

Desert, without & within

The early Christian desert hermits said very little about the desert as geography or physical locale. The physical context of solitude and a sense of the absolu...

Baptism of solitude

American expatriate writer and composer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) once wrote a little travel essay titled “Baptism of Solitude.” The essay describes w...