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Thursday, November 10, 2011 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alomogordo NM

Arriving at Oliver Lee, January 18, 2008
Arriving at Oliver Lee, January 18, 2008

Enough already

I've had enough traveling for now. I'm going to chill here at Oliver Lee for a while. Kick back with a good book. Clean the road grime off the rig. Maybe do a leather project or two. Start assessing the motorcycle rebuild project. Take a hike.

Night camp

Site 6 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo 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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