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Show Come to think of it, the faintest glimmer of this jewel beyond price must have been latent in our longing for mirages, illusions, delusions. We were seekers and we did not know what we sought, what the desert was above all prepared to give us. Who knows? If deserts do sharpen spiritual insight, Nada may have lit a divine spark in someone, some young person who once lived there. We scattered to the ends of the earth. Father's efforts to bring in more settlers and keep them buoyed up may have done more than we realized. The Valley of Our Lady of the Light may have given vision to more than the Fathers who first rode down the Escalante two centuries ago. |