#angel fire

[astrovampz]

[oldweb-sailormoon]

[casually-salad]

UMMM i wanted to make a seinop. is that ok ? i hope so theyre so cool

[saintasela]

[alexeiphotography]

black lake, nm

[nostalgia-mind-prison1995]

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Between Angel Fire and Eagle Nest, Taos Co, NM. Photo: Heidi Harrand Watkins (Sep 28, 2024)

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"Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free, he has set himself free for higher dreams, for greater privileges." ~James Baldwin [Ian Sanders]

+ “...No, happiness is the uncle you never knew about, who flies a single-engine plane onto the grassy landing strip, hitchhikes into town, and inquires at every door until he finds you asleep midafternoon as you so often are during the unmerciful hours of your despair.

It comes to the monk in his cell. It comes to the woman sweeping the street with a birch broom, to the child whose mother has passed out from drink. It comes to the lover, to the dog chewing a sock, to the pusher, to the basketmaker, and to the clerk stacking cans of carrots in the night.

                   It even comes to the boulder in the perpetual shade of pine barrens, to rain falling on the open sea, to the wineglass, weary of holding wine.”

Jane Kenyon, “Happiness” from Otherwise: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 2005 by the Estate of Jane Kenyon. Reprinted with the permission of Graywolf Press, St. Paul, Minnesota, 

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