Lick the Bracken

Lick the Bracken

Leaving hasn't left.

...and other confessions.

Monica Meneghetti
Feb 18, 2020
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Since I left Banff, leaving Banff hasn’t left me. Nor has my wish to write a personal essay about it.

Writing about leaving Banff has been difficult because writing has been difficult since I left Banff.

During those first months in Vancouver, I barely even wrote in a journal – something I have done for so long, it’s beyond habit or even ritual; it’s quit…

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