Not quite the "desert" I was talking about ...

.... and yet, I find it strangely ironic that my first round of spam comments in a long time (since that 5,000-word treatise on Islam that I got a month ago) is for free Playboy .... attached to my post about how Jesus was driven into the desert, and how that parallels my own vocation story. I mean, sure, there's that whole "celibacy" thing, but that's not quite what makes Lent, or the monastic journey for that matter, a "desert." Although, given some folks' obsession with the "You mean you don't have sex?" piece ........