My new friend, Eloise

  "The words were still clear on the thick yellow page but the paper crumbled like bread and a bakery smell rose in her nostrils. Words surely have meanings, she thought, and there is my trouble. Something happens to words coming to me from other people. Something happens to my words. They do not seem worth uttering.
  "People don't mean what they say. Words often mean their opposites.
  "If a person says to you: I hate to tell you this, but...she doesn't hate to tell you. She likes to tell you. This is a good place to make a new start with words."  Walker Percy, The Second Coming

Badlands...again and again forever and always

Soundtrack.

We can all be free/
Maybe not with words/
Maybe not with a look/
But with your mind/

Cat Power, "Maybe Not"

Glacier Nat'l Park

I hear the mountains are doing fine / The morning glories are on the vine / And the dew is falling / And the ducks are calling / Yes, I got mine. - Neil Young, "Motion Pictures"

Bitterroot

Franconia

"Each person you come to is a different mirror. And since you're just another person like them, maybe you're just another mirror too, and there's no way of knowing whether your own view of yourself is just another distortion." Robert Pirsig, Lila