The sun is strong - this is a desert region. But it makes for gorgeous afternoons full of light and shadows, smiles and sunburns.
It is a beautiful thing to be given a choice in what happens to you.
These modern houses contrast quite nicely with the colonial mansion in the photo before.
To sit and drink and talk and laugh like life is completely normal - to feel for a couple hours like life will go on, it's reassuring.
And then to watch the sun paint the sky a million shades of amazing, tipping the mountains with brilliant pink, casting long shadows to contrast with the last rays of sunlight...
...I am privileged to be a part of such thoroughly beautiful moments.
And then as the sky turns dark and the conversation turns serious, I can't help but remember how truly great a gift it is to be granted a choice, to have that choice respected, and to be able to go on with life the way the I had wanted.
The peace and calm inside the many many churches all around the city was soothing and pervasive. Even casting a spell on the streets around the buildings... Places of searching and healing, places of history and future, places of love and loss, places that mirrored the ache in my heart while simultaneously soothing it.
And in the last few minutes of sunlight in such beautiful surroundings, I couldn't help but feel, for a moment, that everything will indeed be ok again, some day.
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