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Thursday, February 12, 2009 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM

Prickly sunset on the trail, Rockhound State Park, Deming NM, February 9, 2009
Prickly sunset on the trail, Rockhound State Park, Deming NM, February 9, 2009

Here is another image from my sunset walk on Monday, this one in black and white.

Night camp

Site 27 - Rockhound State Park, Deming NM

Finding the Words to Fit It

There is an idea current in the prevailing culture that writing about something that pains you heals the pain. I was not, when I began writing my life story, and am not now, healed of my mother. But you do gain a small distance from anything by keeping it in suspension in your mind while you work at finding the words to fit it. The process is so slow and incremental that you don't notice its effect, but the point is that it is a process.

Source: Almost There: the Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman, a Memoir by Nuala O'Faolain

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