A glance in the direction of our front door as I was pulling into the driveway gave me pause. The teal-tinted burlap I’d just months previous pushed, pulled, and re-adjusted a few too many times was looking a bit yellow. Later that day, I took a closer look. Sure enough, the sun, which had begun to disintegrate the previous, natural burlap, was already fading the tinted burlap. And here, buried in the layers of burlap was a lesson for the finding: to create room for what will be, what is needs to be pulled away. To move forward afresh and renewed, we must let the layers unravel. To be redone we must first be undone.

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