Woolgathering: under the sweetgum trees, a smoky fire.

Beneath the trees in the Mississippi Bayou brush, Meredith sits by the fire swatting away the "no see 'ems". She daydreams, "woolgathering" as she calls it, of who she was in her past lives, was following a cattle driver? A sailor who traveled around Cape Horn? An immigrant running to safety and freedom? She wonders who you are with? "Where is your heart tonight?" amidst the pandemic. She decides to stay in this camp ground for a couple of months and to make use of her time writing. She talks of the insurrection at the capital, trying to process, and remembers her old friend whose husband passed away, wanting to escape and find healing and joy on the wind of dreams.

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