Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ
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Redeye to Phoenix, Plomosa Road, Quartzsite AZ, January 29, 2012
Bad food?
Who knows. Whatever it was, it looks like we'll be here a while. Jane was laid low overnight and is in no condition to fly out of Tucson later today as scheduled. She has rescheduled her flight for Thursday and we will stay here until Thursday morning and hopefully she can recover enough stability and strength to fly by then. Bummer.
Night camp
Overflow Parking - Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - very good signal
- Locate this camp on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
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