It was a short visit out to the wilderness, just a week. But it is amazing what desert trails and skies can do to break up accumulated habits and world-views that seem real but are in fact nothing more than confining ideas. He had taken this trip to get a measure of freedom and uplift and he got it, through the simple experiences of daily living in a new place and through a series of gifts the universe offered him as he slowly opened up to reality as it is. Inspired by Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden' this is a story about what happens when one simply decides to show up to what is present rather than project into the dead past and an imaginary future.