A Gathering of Spirits

A Gathering of Spirits

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Blankets of Stars, Six Soft-Eared Deer & The Homelands of the Heart

Blankets of Stars, Six Soft-Eared Deer & The Homelands of the Heart

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“We are told a story, and then we tell our own.  Each of us harbors a homeland. The stories that are rooted push themselves up like native grass and crack the sidewalk. —Terry Tempest Williams from  ‘Pieces of White Shell’

I stepped out of the tent in the middle of the night. We were camped in a high altitude meadow in the Andes Mountains.  We had been h…

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