Fire and Light

A Taste of Place


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Where do you place yourself? How does it taste? Tessa and Dave share a taste of the Sonoran Desert as they savor picking saguaro fruit with guidance from local Tohono O’odham neighbors. They relish the physical act of picking fruit with a traditional tool and preparing it to eat. And they ponder the spiritual meaning of the sticky red fruit for native communities. In gathering the fruit, Desert People bring down the clouds that release life-giving monsoons in July. How does your land nourish you?

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Fire and LightBy Tessa Bielecki and David Denny