longing to be born

maria, out west

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Dorothea Lange, Drought-abandoned house on the edge of the Great Plains. Hollis, Oklahoma (c. 1938)

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Robert Adams, Nebraska State Highway 2. Box Butte County, Nebraska (c. 1978)

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“I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing—that the light is everything—that it is more than the sum of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.”

Mary Oliver, “The Ponds”

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Dorothea Lange, Close-up view of abandoned dry land farmhouse in Columbia Basin. Washington, Grant County, one mile east of Quincy (c. 1939)

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Dorothea Lange, On U.S. 99. Benton County, Oregon, Williamette Valley (c. 1939)

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"Dad said I would always be 'high minded and low waged' from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right."

Jim Harrison, The English Major

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Arthur Rothstein, Pitching horseshoes at the Resettlement Administration camp. Madras, Oregon (c. 1936)

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Dorothea Lange, Bindles on shady side of Pastime Cafe. Tulelake, California (c. 1939)

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"Sometimes there's only a hint, a possibility. What's magical, sometimes, has deeper roots than reason. I hope everyone knows that."

Mary Oliver, "Such Silence"

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Dorothea Lange. Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana (c. 1937)

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Dorothea Lange, Corner of Roberts' one-room basement dugout. Malheur County, Oregon (c. 1939)

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“The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.”

Walt Whitman, “A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads”

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Dorothea Lange, The postmaster's seat. Finlay, Texas (c. 1937)

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Dorothea Lange, Abandoned farm on the high plains. Oklahoma (c. 1938)

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It is time now, I said, for the deepening and quieting of the spirit among the flux of happenings.

Mary Oliver, "Swimming, One Day in August"

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Dorothea Lange, On abandoned farm in Columbia Basin. Washington, Grant County, one mile east of Quincy (c. 1939)

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Dorothea Lange. Northwestern Arkansas (c. 1938)