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4. Postcard From the Desert

Hello from New Mexico, where I'll be for a few more days.

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Sep 16, 2022
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Rabbitbrush and the Sandia Mountains, Albuquerque NM.

In a run of difficult years, it’s important to notice those moments when things start to go right again. Today, when I went in to visit my dad at the long-term care hospital, he was sitting up, dressed in a chambray shirt and Hawaiian shorts, reading a paperback copy of Master and Commander by Patrick…

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