Deserts

I recall being instructed in an analogy of the timelessness - or really, endlessness - of eternity by the idea of a bird who had to pick up every individual grain of sand on Earth, one at a time, fly it to space, then fly around the world a thousand times, and repeat this process until all grains of sand were gone; and then the instructor said, after this amount of time, eternity would just be getting started! I likewise recall being more impressed with the bird’s tirelessness than the vast expanse of time, but that is another matter entirely. Deserts are not univariate in nature. Some deserts, such as that of Saudi Arabia have a sand composition that is not good for cement mixture or other industrial processes, and thus, Saudi Araba, a land filled with sand, actually imports sand. Some deserts, like the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, feature quintessential desert flora like the organ pipe cactus, though the fauna is more likely to be lizards and jaguars rather than roadrunners and coyotes. Some deserts, like the part of the Sahara Desert in Tunisia, can also double as the dunes of Tatooine in the cinematic world, where two lonely droids crash their escape pod. Regardless, deserts are naturally a place of void, abandonment, desperation, and testing due to their severe lack of vital necessities. This was true for the nation of Israel, traversing thr0ugh the desert of Egypt and Palestine and most especially true for the only true Israelite who was found to be completely faithful during his time of testing in the wilderness or, desert.