Rooms in the Desert

Can you hear colors?
Yes, you can.

Is it possible to hear new parts in music that you’ve listened to thousands upon thousands of times before?
Most definitely.

Can you arrange a fight between a cactus and scrub brush to the White Stripes’ “The Hardest Button to Button”.
Of course, and with very pleasing results.

Go to the desert.

Find the keys to nature.

Unlock your head with some heat.

Play the piano you just drew in the ground.

Watch out for poisonous spiders.

Bring headphones (and cue “Next Episode” by Dr. Dre as your lead song)

Find that note and don’t play detective.

By the time it was all over everyone was feeling fun and fancy-free, sans one member of our group (but, in all fairness, took it in stride and was a good sport about it…). Watching the sky catch fire made stomachs rumble and the only cure was four chili dogs smothered in cheese, topped with blue corn tortilla chips. New Castle beer, along with roasted s’mores, washed down the day.

The theme: coming together. The clouds—they needed to come together. A green finger plant and a red finger plant intertwined—they came together. Melissa running down the mountain after Tone, didn’t quite come together the first time, but they did later on in the day. Sara’s message on the envelope—perfect for my note on paper.

And at the end of the day, we all came together. Success story!