Things Read

"Sometimes paper is only paper," my mother says. "Words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don't be afraid to remember that."

I know what she means. Writing, painting, singing - - it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.

Reached - Ally Condie

Roses after Rain, Missoula, September 2013

August in Pictures

 smokey skies

Minidoka National Historic Site, ID

Minidoka sign

Minidoka bunkhouse

 feather

 swimming hole

fence

 Boise nature center, and story walk path

Boise nature center

 Boise nature center sculpture

sculpture close up

 sculpture

 Craters of the Moon

 smoke, lava, mountains

 smoke. lava, mountains

tree

type of buckwheat, growing in lava bed

lava, smoke, mountains

lava bed

 lava bed

 packing (alien cat?)

 boxes

empty

 empty

 Headframe