It is a little puzzling as I consider adding to this blog. Yesterday I was looking through some books and opened up a book titled "Red Earth - Poems of New Mexico". I reached for the book to see if I could find something by Tony Hillerman ,a poet who lived in New Mexico and died not too long ago. He probably is someone who is worth reading more of. At first I wasn't sure why I reached for this particular book and it sort of reinforced a concern I have had about trying to remember all that I have read. So I gave up but today I tried again and right on page one I found what was lost yesterday in the memory.
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Tony Hillerman wrote, and it was quoted on page one in this book of poetry, that
"Pretentious as it sounds, and tough as
it is to prove, there does seem to be
something about New Mexico which not only attracts
creative people but stimulates their creativity"
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One way to look at our experiences are to ask "what have they made of us" ? How has experience formed the present condition. Every experience has the potential of forming us. So I guess the question is what is the impact of the experience. A sculptor takes a block of granite and finds the intended entity inside, revealing it with each hit of the chisel. Maybe our own experiences as we go through life are much the same for us.
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Then the question of what has New Mexico done for me and has it refined the end result? .................................I suspect that it has.
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