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Oct 10, 2022·edited Oct 10, 2022Liked by Antonia Malchik

I love all of this. I'm reminded of a story Pete Fromm told me about his French publisher coming to visit, flying into Seattle, and thinking they could do this and this and this and this ... and then encountered the vast landscape of this chunk of North America and were humbled and stunned and all but immobilized by it. We are lucky to live in this place.

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This: "...and all of that, the 19-year-old who was there, is still here, too, driving across the plains and listening to the Ramones and wondering about all the past selves everyone else carries with them." I think about this almost every day, trying to make sense of time, what it really means to have experienced living somewhere far away, our ghost selves still there. I loved that line and your thoughts as you noticed the wear on the cabin...it's so true, how many lives we connect to without even knowing it.

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This was wonderful, Nia. Thank you! I empathize with your Kentucky friend; being a Kentuckian, I, too, had that misperception of distances to embarrassing effect in the past!

I'll have to find a copy of Micaiah Johnson's book. I'm thoroughly intrigued.

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Your photos are always fabulous, never look staged and are always peaceful. If that is your intent, they get the job done! Going to try to do a bit of your 'other reading' references this week. Thanks.

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