Dear Emily, as always, the images are glowing and dancing in my imagination with your vivid depiction. Thank you for taking me to this place that I also love. Am reading a book now by a young author, Sophie Strand, whom you might want to check out. "The Body is a Doorway: A Memoir, a journey beyond healing, hope and the human". She is a fascinating word artist like yourself :). Much love to you on this new chapter. I hope all is well...
This sticks with me...I need to read the article.
"To say that life in the hinterlands “sucks” is really only to make an admission that you yourself are in rough shape — that your family has cut their roots off, that you may be without faith, that you are in so low a state that you need the land and culture around you to do favors for you, to give you little pick-me-ups, to make life easy and pretty and sunny for you, even if it is mind-numbingly expensive to get there."
I love this. It made me find this quote I love by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.”
I love movies, books, and stories that throw me deeply into a place teaching me about it. I think this is true because we all long for home. And it is not here.
This is so beautiful, Emily. Thank you for your writing and for the blessing of letting us read it!
I just finished reading "Pieces of Purple" by Michele Phoenix about the grief of TCKs... related all too much to the goodbyes.
A beautiful end description. I wish you the best with your post MVS endeavors Emily. And I hope you keep writing, I enjoy reading your substack.
Dear Emily, as always, the images are glowing and dancing in my imagination with your vivid depiction. Thank you for taking me to this place that I also love. Am reading a book now by a young author, Sophie Strand, whom you might want to check out. "The Body is a Doorway: A Memoir, a journey beyond healing, hope and the human". She is a fascinating word artist like yourself :). Much love to you on this new chapter. I hope all is well...
This sticks with me...I need to read the article.
"To say that life in the hinterlands “sucks” is really only to make an admission that you yourself are in rough shape — that your family has cut their roots off, that you may be without faith, that you are in so low a state that you need the land and culture around you to do favors for you, to give you little pick-me-ups, to make life easy and pretty and sunny for you, even if it is mind-numbingly expensive to get there."
Thanks for reading! And the article by A.M. Hickman includes a Taos mention :)
I love this. It made me find this quote I love by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.”
I love movies, books, and stories that throw me deeply into a place teaching me about it. I think this is true because we all long for home. And it is not here.