Today I stumbled into the complex realization that several of what I've considered to be foundational components of myself no longer hold a foundational place in my life.

This evening I found myself in a park by my little town's busiest intersection, turning my face to the breeze, watching the grass blades bobble in the wind while cars whizzed by beyond the spruce trees some seventy yards away.

Today my contradictions weight heavy on my mind…

There is something simple and lovely

This morning I got up with the sun to go to the garden. I made coffee while Penny and Sparrow told me not to give up; and the sensation of being on the other side of a dark season almost brought me to tears.