Friday, November 16, 2012 - San Antonio Mechanic Shop, San Antonio NM
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Afterglow, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, November 10, 2012
Aarggh
Wrong water pump. Guess I'll be sitting here another couple of days.
Night camp
Drycamped - San Antonio Mechanic Shop, San Antonio 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