Sarah Bessey's Field Notes

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Befriending our ghosts

Befriending our ghosts

On love, loss, haunted landscapes, and still healing

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Sarah Bessey
Aug 16, 2022
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Southern gothic writer Flannery O’Connor once described her spot in the world as a “Christ-haunted landscape.” I don’t spend a lot of time in the American South but when I do, I’m always reminded of that phrase. Perhaps because I’m surrounded by the heavy green vines climbing the telephone pole lines and the dense forests carpeting the hills,…

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