Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - Independence KS
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Sunset in the Park, Elk City Reservoir - April 30, 2008
Elk City State Park campground
My black tank needs to take a dump making a night in a campground a desirable departure from my usual Wal-Mart parking lot thing and what a fine campground this is. Elk City State Park has some beautiful modern campgrounds on the east side of Elk City Reservoir and I bagged a site right at waters edge. Nice. Nice sunset over the lake to boot.
Night camp:
Site 13, Sunset Point, Elk City State Park, Independence, Kansas
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