The Sun and I Have a Little Conversation About Autumn

Why presence is the practice of compassion. Morning on the Rio Grande, living in the Dance and the Wonder

Some of our best conversations are wordless. #BeBoundless #BoundlessIsOurLove #BoundlessAre Our Dreams

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Fallen cottonwood, reflected in the blue waters of the Rio Grande, Albuquerque, New Mexico

A bouquet of golden cottonwood leaves before the rapids, Rio Grande, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Early fall mix of gold and green, cottonwood in the Rio Grande, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Russian olive in gold and green, along the bosque next to the Rio Grande, Albuquerque, New Mexico

In the morning light, the Sandia Mountains look like feathered, cut paper.

Memoirist, novelist and essayist Carolyn Dawn Flynn is the author of the memoir Boundless and seven books of nonfiction. Boundless was longlisted for the 2021 Mslexia International Memoir Prize and the 2022 First Pages Prize. Her work has been published in Fourth Genre, Under the Gum Tree, Arts and Letters, The Colorado Sun, The Tampa Review, The Whitefish Review (Montana Prize for Fiction), Albuquerque Journal, Sage Magazine, Albuquerque the Magazine and Wilde Frauen.

Download a book discussion guide at carolynflynn.com.