finally returned to the desert in 1937. It was in Moorpark that he had a long-awaited reunion with his son, Rodney.
Upon his return to the desert, Cabot became very active in civic activities. He was involved in the founding of Desert Hot Springs as well as being instrumental in establishing the American Legion Chapter there. He was a founding member and first president of the Improvement Association.
He was well known locally as an artist and writer, often disappearing for weeks at a time to return with canvasses of the Cahuilla Indian life style. His love of the desert manifested itself in many ways. Not only did he paint its mystery and beauty and provide tales of its past, but he tried to incorporate its purity through preservation. Cabot always carried a shovel in the trunk of his automobile so he could bury and trash discarded along the desert roads.
On August 8, 1945 Cabot married Portia Graham, renowned lecturer and teacher of metaphysics at the school which she founded in Morongo Valley. Portia was a member of a well-to-do Texas family, but had spent most of her adult life in California studying culture, religion, and philosophy. In a letter to his son he added a postscript: "By the way, have married a friend." Though the tone sounded casual, the marriage had strong bonds.
The two were closely bound in their love of mysticism, art, culture, and the development of their intellect. Each was eccentric in their own way; Cabot developed a consuming interest in Indian life and a personal commitment to painting as Portia centered her avid intellectuality on Eastern Thought and Theosophical Society metaphysics.
Over the years the two cultivated a belief in what might be termed "probability." In trying to comprehend the vastness of the Universe, they searched for an expression of universal needs, and came to believe in the probability of other worlds, other life, beyond our own planet. They saw our own space travel as not simply probable but inevitable, and opened themselves to the communications from other planets and peoples.