Beth Downing Beth Downing

Familiar in Fall

It’s not often you can identify the very day something is at its most brilliant. It’s not often you can point to the most colorful something will become and say yes, this is the best hour.

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DNF (did not finish)

On it’s face, the turnaround meant Izta was a failure. But it didn’t feel like one.

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Dead Remember

When we remember, we’re holding alive within ourselves the parts that caused us pain but launched us into the orbits we currently occupy. We carry the turning points in vividness.  

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Even If You Don’t

But just for the time it took a stranger to pass her on the trail, she needed to relieve herself of the burden of wondering if she could do it.

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