![]() ![]() Throughout their 53-year marriage, Karen, a fiber artist and retired bank president, had been pretty tolerant of her husband’s poetic whims. 16, making their way through the Sierras and ancient bristlecone pine forests to visit their son in Mammoth Lakes, California, for the first time since the pandemic. The couple had already been on the road since Aug. The connection was strong enough that last week found Bodeen and his wife, Karen, pointing their motor home to Chinle, where Mitchell had lived, in order to understand his words more deeply. The 76-year-old poet and retired Spanish literature teacher stumbled onto, or perhaps was led to, the autobiography of the late medicine man Frank Mitchell about four years ago. That was the case for Jim Bodeen of Yakima, Washington. But after you hear or read their words, you’re not quite the same ever again. It can be someone from a different race or culture, even someone long dead. Sometimes, something someone says just strikes a chord, and you don’t really know why. ![]()
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