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Arkansas: My Happy Place

October 21, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Once I cross the state line into Arkansas (from any direction), I can breathe and think as the pace seems to slow just a notch.

I was born there.

I couldn’t get away fast enough.

I hurry back as often as I can.

Arkansas is where I go to relax, recharge, remember.

I’m headed there today.

Hot Springs, Arkansas
Hot Springs
Mountain Home Arkansas
Lake Norfork

Arkansas My Happy Place
Dairy Hollow Writer’s Colony, Eureka Springs

Arkansas My Happy Place
Keiser
My Happy Place Arkansas
Hemingway-Pfeiffer, Piggott
My Happy Place Arkansas
Fayetteville

Arkansas My Happy Place
The Farm. Mississippi County

Maya Angelou said the ache for home lives in all of us. 

Where’s your happy place?

talya

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Farm. Food. Garden. Life.


“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.” 
― Donald Miller

Musical Pairing:

Los Lonely Boys, Heaven

Rice Field. Mississippi County, Arkansas

September 10, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Rice Field Mississippi County Arkansas
Rice Field, Tate Farms, Northeast Arkansas

“Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?” 
― Gene Logsdon

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Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

THE ACCIDENTAL SALVATION OF GRACIE LEE (2016)

GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

BERNICE RUNS AWAY (2022)

THE THIRD ACT OF THEO GRUENE (coming 2025)

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