Fire across the plains
Light upon the lake
–
All these times will change
I can’t turn away
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Will life get ahead of me?
—From Whitney, “Light Upon the Lake”
forgetting
haven’t forgotten
forgetting
haven’t forgotten
forgetting

She was always interrupting herself to point out something wonderful happening nearby: a passer-by’s unusual body language, a man walking his rabbit on a leash or some dirty-sounding slogan on a sign. Every meeting was an immersion — not into her life but into her way of being.
Writer Jordan Kisner on France McDormand, for her New York Times Magazine profile, “The Natural.”







