Papa’s life ended at Manzanar... Until this trip I had not been able to admit that my own life really began there
Farewell to Manzanar
Something about Manzanar compels me. I have been drawn to it twice and plan to return yet again. It's not that there are enormous ruins, or that they have significant beauty....perhaps it is a spiritual resonance about the place. Perhaps it is the lessons that it has to teach that aren't immediately visible, but only come from spending some time there, perhaps in hope you can reach across the generations and only by touching on some aspect of their life there one began to understand something of the aforementioned lessons...
Perhaps it doesn't matter and it's simply bearing witness to what was.....
Alison Krauss, "It Doesn't Matter":
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