"Inhabiting the San Juan River canyon for a few days feels like an actual merging of place and friendship with a certain deep affinity circulating between the humans and the landscape. It’s an immersion into something that’s equally comforting, awe-inspiring, and joyful," Rosie Carter writes in this personal essay about friendship with place and humans alike.
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I'm guessing you're familiar with this game: if you knew you were going to be stranded on a desert island, what three things would you take with you? I had the thought today that we're all a bit better prepared to answer that question, stranded on our own pandemic islands as we are.
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What happens in your head when a pandemic hits and your world shrinks to the size of your living room and every week brings more news that's scary and heartbreaking all at once and you miss little things you didn't know were so important like running into friends on the street and great big bear hugs? What changes to your brain take place and what hidden part of your mind quietly tries to deal with them so your day-to-day self can go on functioning in a semi-normal kind of way?
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I have a strong belief in the search for the truth but that doesn't deter me from also looking for signs. You know what I mean... messages from another realm or a dispatch from a rock.
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I've been on a journey, that started months before we'd all heard of coronavirus, of studying rocks. And I've wondered, "What is it that rocks would tell us if we could understand their silent language?" This question seems apt right now as the noise of our busy lives has suddenly shifted to a much quieter place - the confines of our home and the company of only our closest kin. What is it that is speaking to you out of this newly acquired silence?
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Sometimes it takes a while to come around to yourself. There are a lot of distractions in life, conflicting viewpoints and layers of inaccurate impressions. Sometimes you think this is who you are but after trying it out you find that it's not quite the right fit. Or you change and it takes a while for all of your parts to catch up to the new reality. All of these things and even more in the mix can make it challenging to answer the seemingly simple question: Who am I?
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They tumbled out onto the street where the hawk grabbed the dove and was about to take off when a pack of three ravens swooped in, squawking crazily, and chased the hawk with dove down the street, all of them flying just inches above the pavement…
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