Sunset at the Oregon Coast…

A tranquil memory preceding  losses and change. Now it helps give peace and strength.

The spot is near Arch Cape, Oregon

the past…

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”  John Banville

Frances Lake, Eagle Cap Wilderness, Oregon, 1981

abiding…

“Everyone, deep down within, carries a small cemetery of those he has loved.” Romain Rolland

hazy, but real…

“For it is up to you and me
to take solace
in nostalgia’s arms
and our ability
to create
the everlasting
from fleeting moments.”

Sanober Khan

down memory lane…

“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.” Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

forgotten ways, need, connections…

‘We have almost forgotten how strange a thing it is that so huge and powerful and intelligent an animal as a horse should allow another, and far more feeble animal, to ride upon its back.’ Peter Gray

Ranch in Central Oregon. I have not ridden but one horse in my life. ‘Gumdrop’ was the horse, when I was 8 y/o….we failed to form a connection on a pack trip into the Wallowa Wilderness in Oregon.

Once upon a time…

when the children played, pretended and laughed.