Great Regulars: As Linda Gregg says, there's nothing wrong

with the simplifying as long as it doesn't go too far. The tiny detail, the almost secret image that we carry, must remain--"the bite of the creek's smell," as she says. It's what the senses know, that bypasses, or slips in under, the mind that likes to tell stories about it.

from Fleda Brown: Traverse City Record-Eagle: When memory needs a voice

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