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The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: A Ceramics and Serpentine Raffle

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The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: A Ceramics and Serpentine Raffle
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One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course, never breaks.) The moment I stepped out of the airplane, the Andes towered over me like the stone thrones of gods, snow-capped over the oracle eye of the glacial lake, blue as Uranus, their scale so incomprehensible you are no longer a person but a particle, a mote of dust in the eye of eternity; the trees are no lo

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