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Friday, March 19, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Gambel's Quail, Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM, March 19, 2010
Gambel's Quail, Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM, March 19, 2010

It's a setup

The weather turned later but this morning was bright and sunny and warm and I tossed a handful of bird seed out by the fence and sat in my lawn chair soaking up the sun watching and photographing the birds enjoying their meal. It was all a setup but I got some really nice pictures.

Night camp

Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, 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

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