Happy birthday dearest mama!
I picked this book for you because I've become engrossed in everything Scott Carrier has to say. He is the author. He does regular radio shows for NPR's this American Life, which I listen to almost every day and I've listened to hundreds of programs, but his voice always stands out to me. Running After Antelope was even one of the stories he did on NPR. I fell in love with this it. There's something very raw about all of them. Always the common thread of getting back to nature, of wanting to live close to the land the way primitives did and blocking out the modern world. I think you and Scott have that in common, ma. I'm really glad I was raised by someone so captivated by the natural world - all the camping, the hiking; it has rubbed off on me. I've yet to do the same amount of camping as you, but it is what I want to do. It's what I'm always fantasizing about. Somewhere in the background a future in river-guiding may be waiting for me.
Here is the link so you can listen to the radio story: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/80/Running-After-Antelope
This is just one of many of his shows. Here is a list of all his This American Life contributions: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/contributors/scott-carrier
If you have time, you should give them a listen. You can totally download the shows, burn it to a CD and listen to it in the car on a long car ride. Like if you are driving to visit Nicole or Jaime for example. It makes the time fly. I listen to them everyday while I'm doing my talatat blocks. Only 800 something left...
It looks like you had a really nice birthday weekend with the whole family. So great to see the whole family together. I miss you guys a lot. Nicole is so pretty these days. Jaime is so good with the kids. You look youthful and pretty and happy.
I think everything will work out with me being a photographer. I just need some time to feel my way through it. It's like this - until I know how something is done, how it works, I feel dumb-founded about how to approach it. I can't quite visualize it. It's not like in school when you were given a paper topic or a math problem and there was a step by step logical way of going about it, this seems different somehow. This real world. But I'm going to figure it out. Have faith in me and I will have faith in me too.
You have my electronic "i owe you" for an afternoon in the garden, and a hiking/camping trip. It will be fun. We can drink hottie tottie's and talk about everything.
I love you,
Sara
