This was a challenge. I have not been to many places that are truly wilderness spaces or at least that fit my understanding of a wilderness.
Ghost Ranch, the setting for this photo, is beautiful and outdoors. But it is really well developed in terms of being a wilderness.
Still it remains a semi-wild place that feeds my soul and spirit.
Photo: Ghost Ranch, New Mexico; 30 August 2008
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“You are on sacred land.”
One friend said that to another friend who is at Ghost Ranch.
“You are on sacred land.”
I have said that to friends who are at Ghost Ranch.
“We are on sacred land.”
I have said that when I have been at Ghost Ranch.
All those statements are true. And so is this one:
“All land is sacred.”
Every place.
All called good.
Every acre.
All entrusted to our care.
Every bit.
All land is sacred.
All ground holy,
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Ghost Ranch. New Mexico.
Traci Smith, author of Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home has provided a gift of the November 2018 Gratitude Every Day calendar. I am using it as an opportuity to revisit photos and post them as they speak to gratitude.
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Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
26 October 2009
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Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
24 October 2009
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Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
29 July 2009
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Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
29 July 2009
Back to the ranch
delicate petals of purple
in various stages of growth.
See you along the Trail.
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Plans for a fall trip to New Mexico and Ghost Ranch fell apart yesterday as I realized I had failed to read my calendar properly. I am deeply disappointed that things have gone awry. This will be the first year in a while that I have not made such a trip. I had already begun to pencil in an itinerary that included attending a Menaul School football game. After spending a few days in Colorado, I realized anew how much that part of the country feeds my spirit and nurtures my soul. But this year, it is not to be.
Disappointed as I am, I recognize that this “problem” fails to amount to a hill of beans in this broken and battered world. After a primal scream of sorts, where I acknowledged my privilege, I have begun making plans – plans for what I will do in the New York city area during those days – and plans to increase the likelihood that next year, I will view this in person once again:
Assuming I have read my calendar correctly this time and assuming I can make the plans come together, my alternatives for the fall should result in a fairly significant, in the extremely privileged, not amounting to a hill of beans sense of significance, announcement late in October or early in November.
See you along the Trail.
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Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
23 August, 2010
A picture posted a couple weeks ago
shows a bee enjoying
purple flowers at Ghost Ranch.
This photo was taken over a year after the first one.
It cannot be
the same bee.
Perhaps a descendant?
See you along the Trail.
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Ghost Ranch
Abiquiu, New Mexico
31 July 2009
Near the Agape Center, a hummingbird stops for a snack.
See you along the Trail.
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Along the Graybeard Trail 