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It’s a question I ask myself almost everyday, and I will try to answer here: 1. Because I’ve been thinking about my childhood a lot these days. I guess it’s inevitable; my daughters are 3-and-a-half and one-and-a-half-years old, and I often find myself comparing their experiences to mine. Horses dominated my childhood. My mother says […]
Reflection is an important part of preserving memory—of learning and evolving, of taking inventory. Counting blessings, so to speak, making a list and checking it twice. I’ve been inspired by the season to reflect on 2014—its joys and disappointments, regrets and surprises, of new lives coming in and old ones transitioning to whatever’s next, divinity or dust, or an unimaginable somewhere else.
When Jesse was in veterinary school he would sometimes travel for weeks at a time for externships and fieldwork. On those nights, Mr. Bones and I would be alone in the house. He would be on high alert, in full-blown “protect Mom” mode…
In Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey wrote, “When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country’s rivers and streams, that country is no longer fit to live in. Time to move on, to find another country or—in the name of Jefferson—to make another country.”
I’ve been thinking about this quote a lot lately, ever since Freedom Industries’ storage tanks leaked a toxic chemical(s) into the Elk River in Charleston, WV…