southwest holiday.

“The desert, when the sun comes up…I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.” – Tom Hanks

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Bryce Southwest Landscape Desert Painting, Print from Original Watercolor, 10×15, Snow, Cactus

https://www.etsy.com/listing/124601504/bryce-southwest-landscape-desert?ref=tre-2727001778-5

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“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams…” – Antoine de Saint -Exupery

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Framed Photography, Guardian Dog Rock, Landscape Photography, Nevada Landscape, Fine Art Photograph, Wall Decor, High Desert Photo, Wall Art

https://www.etsy.com/listing/106059720/framed-photography-guardian-dog-rock?ref=tre-2727001778-16

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VogueTeam for Vintage Southwest Holidays 75/25 #vogueteam:

https://www.etsy.com/treasury/NzA0NjQyMHwyNzI3MDAxNzc4/vogueteam-for-vintage-southwest-holidays

 

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healing.

“Healing is more about accepting the pain and finding a way to peacefully co-exist with it. In the sea of life, pain is a tide that will ebb and weave, continually.

We need to learn how to let it wash over us, without drowning in it. Our life doesn’t have to end where the pain begins, but rather, it is where we start to mend.” – Jaeda DeWalt

 

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Lake of the Lone Indian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_National_Forest

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“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.” – David Richo

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El Dorado

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“If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay.” – Stephen Levine

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El Dorado NF waterfall

https://southwestdesertlover.wordpress.com/tag/travel/page/6/

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“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.” – Rachel Naomi Remen

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solitude.

 

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” -Aldous Huxley

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Red Canyon

http://www.ontfin.com/Word/tag/utah/page/2/

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From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.” – Betty Smith

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Red Canyon Dixie NF

http://www.wildnatureimages.com/Dixie%20National%20Forest.htm

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“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” – May Sarton

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Dixie National Forest, Utah

http://archive.onearth.org/blog/americans-rejected-%E2%80%98drill-baby-drill%E2%80%99-bush-should-respect-our-choice

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“You are at my side, dear friends, and God is everywhere. Yet ultimately we are alone, making our way home by the candle of the heart. The light is steady and sure but extends only far enough to see the next step.
Many times the light seems to go out. But another light, one held by a stranger or friend, a book or a song, a blackbird or a wild flower, comes close enough so that we can see our path by its light. And in time we realize that the light we have borrowed was always our own.” – Joan Borysenko

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Cottonwood forest wilderness

http://www.fs.usda.gov/dixie

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Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.” – Albert Camus

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survive.

“Life is random. Life is complicated. Life is often unforgiving. And we must each live it anyway. And I don’t mean live it as if it’s a chore, something to be endured, survived. I mean, dig in, get muddy, howl at the moon, take pictures of sunsets, play in the rain, make love, savor your food, smile as much as you can. And cry when you’re sad. Live it despite the fact it pisses you off. Live it and pay as much attention as you can muster” – Thomas Lloyd Qualls

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California wilderness

http://charlienickell.blogspot.com/2010/08/around-california.html

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“Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf ’s tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world.”  – Terry Tempest Williams

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perception.

“Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are.” – Shannon Alder

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Monument Valley

https://www.travelblog.org/Photos/1697076

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“Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)”

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Monument Valley sunset

http://npobserver.com/2014/05/27/sunset-monument-valley-navajo-tribal-park/

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“When your heart truly adores somebody,
your mind perceives a halo on that man’s head.” – Toba Beta

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Monument Valley Aerial

http://www.photographersgallery.com/photo.asp?id=229

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“Life is not what happens to us; it is what we perceive has happened to us.” Richelle E.Goodrich

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Monument Valley

http://bluffutah.org/monument-valley/

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“You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice.
And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see,
your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free of judgment
and shining in its endless beauty.” – Paul Ferrini

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