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A photo essay
In last week’s essay “Same Ocean” I wrote:
It’s hard to stay present with what’s happening when I’m thinking about people walking similar walks in far-off places at the same time as me, and while I’m remembering people in far-off places who walked these same places with me in the past.
I started describing my travels as a layer cake of time, as the whole conceit of my Healing Pilgrimage is to deliberately revisit places I’ve lived before to release whatever stuck emotions from the past still needed to move through + out + away from my body. I wouldn’t be able to escape the memories that arose or the ghosts of friends.1
For this week’s B-Side bonus, I wanted to share some layer cake photos from my pilgrimage to the coast. All the photos on the left are from past visits across multiple excursions. All the photos on the right are from the same day of my April 2023 mini pilgrimage. (You’ll see that that one April Fool’s Day held multiple skies and weather patterns, as is typical of an Oregon spring day.)
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