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Finally, I just want to close
with a poem from the book

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Where Clouds Are Formed.

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And this one, too,
has to do with people

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crossing and not knowing
how to cross a desert.

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And so it's a teaching
book, a teaching poem.

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So you might want
to pay attention.

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This is called Lost Prayers.

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Passing below the sacred peak.

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Here, prayer signified by
rosary beads are futile.

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Calling on the Virgin
Mary is useless.

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Instead, one must know
the language of the land.

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One must know the
balance of the desert.

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One must know how to pray so
that all elements of nature

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will fall into rhythm.

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These are the kinds of
prayers that will work.

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Once uttered, the
sacred mountains

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respond with coolness, with
gifts of wetness, and gifts

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of civility, of climate.

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Empty plastic
bottles are collected

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from the desert floor, replaced
with ones filled with water.

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In another location,
blue flags are

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raised in the desert signaling
the location of water,

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signaling a chance for survival.

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Flags recognized by
heat demented minds.

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The O'odham roamed the
desert with precarious steps,

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keeping an eye on the
horizon, moving, seemingly

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becoming a part of the heat and
the dryness of their landscape.

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They walk knowing the heat and
aridity of their namesake place,

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never experiencing a
mirage of running water,

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swaying palms at
a cooling oasis.

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Never needing plastic bottles,
flags to guide them to water

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places.

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They knew the trails
leading to water.

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They knew the
natural water tanks,

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always with names like Hodai
Son Wo'o, "Rock Ponds."

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These rock ponds later labeled
as tinajas on the maps.

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Labeled, the rock ponds
offer no water sanctuary

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for those crossing
the desert unprepared.

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Ironically, it may have
been their distant ancestors

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who put these water
place names on the maps.

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Instead, in the
heat of the desert,

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they rely on rosary beads and
calling on the Virgin Mary.

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Thank you very much.

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[APPLAUSE]

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