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Years ago, I traveled to New Mexico each year to teach at a writing conference. One year, as the plane banked for landing, the woman next to me sighed and said, “Isn’t it beautiful!” I managed a nod, but what I saw was bleak, barren, dusty, reddish-brown desert. Conversely, she saw the beauty of a […]
Years ago, I flew out west to attend a writers’ conference. As the plane banked in its approach to the runway, I caught a glimpse of the dry, barren, rocky terrain below. As a native South Carolinian accustomed to lush, green landscapes, I was unimpressed, and slightly depressed, by this uninviting, drab, and seemingly lifeless […]