Here in the Sonoran Desert, the nights are no longer cool, and the saguaros bear fruit. The green fruits burst open to reveal their bright magenta inner rinds and sticky sweet seed-packed pulp. The living fruit stand is open. Summer arrives.

In our latest Caravans newsletter, we celebrate our winter-spring “visiting season” and what a friend learned from a saguaro. Fr. Dave mourns the loss of a dear friend and healer  and we update you on the Tessa Bielecki, Spiritual Life Institute, and Desert Foundation archives.

And read Caravans to find out about Tessa’s latest podcast conversations on healing beyond betrayal and on the Enneagram.

Take a little time this summer to ponder your own “archives”– memories and lessons learned–and then, as poet Alberto Rios counsels, “go forward into the history you will make.”

June’s ripe saguaro fruit provides food for many desert creatures.