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Devil's Canyon Campground, Blanding UT

Camped at Devil's Canyon Campground, Blanding UT, April 25, 2011
Camped at Devil's Canyon Campground, Blanding UT, April 25, 2011

Devil's Canyon Campground is a new US Forest Service campground about midway between Blanding and Monticello UT. There are no services available at the sites.

Devil's Canyon Campground, Blanding UT

Nights I've camped 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

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