Ep. 5: All Will Be Well
Time Spent with Meredith Baker: A Season in America
Release Date: 09/01/2021
Time Spent with Meredith Baker: A Season in America
Cabbages and Carrots: good, clean fun.
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Old Sweaters: gray skies and the warmth of old friends.
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Quirks and Quiddities: farewell to Ocean Springs.
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Technical Difficulties: mental health challenges.
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Bookends: a jar of spring daffodils and the pursuit of happiness.
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King Cake Baby!: oh my!
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Pascagoula: soap, propane, and s’mores.
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Woolgathering: under the sweetgum trees, a smoky fire.
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Jupiter and Saturn: align across the bayou sky.
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Unexpected Visitors: who’s in my bed.
info_outlineAll Will Be Well: white-out in Parachute, Colorado.
Meredith reflects on her many trips back and forth across the country from 2010-2017. She finds herself surprised at the uncommon quiet in Sturgis, South Dakota with what would have been the time for one of their famous motorcycle rallies. She stops for the night near the autumn colored Twin Falls, Idaho and then is off to the Green River State Park. It’s not long until she’s on the road again, thinking of poetry and heading East to Colorado with temperatures falling rapidly. All of the sudden she’s in the midst of a blizzard and she bundles up to keep warm. Who can read with mittens on? Snowball is having trouble and Meredith spends the night in a hotel. The next day, as she crosses a stretch of Colorado river, a white horse on a hill captures her focus, and she is reminded, “all will be well”.
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