Ben Eastman’s Reviews > We Fed Them Cactus > Status Update

They were all simple, wholesome people living from the soil. They were a hardy lot, for otherwise they could not have survived the cruelty of the wind, the droughts and the poverty which surrounded most of them. They asked my advice on many subjects but I never felt capable of giving it to them.

My education was from books; theirs came the hard way. It was superior to mine.

The stories that she is telling are so wonderful, i can just imagine hearing them at a campfire, or as she heard them sitting late at night waiting for the rain to come.

Also apparently one of my great great uncles was Governor of New Mexico? So that's cool.

"It is a lonely land because of its immensity, but it lacks nothing for those who enjoy Nature in her full grandeur. The colors of the skies, of the hills, the rocks, the birds and the flowers, are soothing to the most troubled heart. It is loneliness without despair. The whole world seems to be there, full of promise and gladness."