Sunday, April 1, 2012 - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM
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A Grande Breakfast, Rio Grande River, Elephant Butte NM, April 1, 2012
Turned on
The Rio Grande River was turned on for the summer a couple weeks ago; spring is in the air. It's been in the 80's here the past week. Trees are leafing out and the beaver and cormorants are busy making their livings along the river.
Night camp
Site 10 - Paseo del Rio Campground - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM
- Verizon cell phone service - very good
- Verizon EVDO service - very good
- Find other references to Elephant Butte on this website
- List the nights I've camped here
- Go to the Elephant Butte Lake State Park website
- Get a Google map of this area
- 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