WHITE SANDS STUDY NO. 1, WHITE SANDS NATIONAL MONUMENT, ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO 2000
Photograph by ©Craig Varjabedian  All Rights Reserved

Feeling lost is what helped me find this picture. Not knowing where I was, I simply followed light and shadow. My awareness became keenly attuned: I was fully present in the desert, under the sun, walking over the sand, gazing at the glittering horizon. And then I saw where I was. I was in a luminous white bowl within the dunes, with a blue canopy of sky over me. In front of me a shadow was moving down one side of a dune to embrace the light arcing out to meet it. The sky seemed to join light and shadow together, a duality of yin and yang. I was in the truth of a moment—a moment of being completely present, because there was no other place I could be, no other way for this place to be.