We held out hope that we could bring it back “after this craziness settles,” but the further away we got from how it had been, the harder it proved to steer that ship back to shore...
Problematic for the almost 30-year old who’s banging around down here while his contemporaries are adulting up there, opportunities for meaningful engagement (professional, social, romantic, et cetera) are scant...
Far back ten hundred years ago- before the yoke of steel, when crop and tide marked time, and tribes humbled knowledge to wisdom- a trail was marked through these parts by the ancient courageous...
From here I can see the whole thing unfold: the bees uncloistering to seek their pollen, the early-rising cogs rolling back to their wheels, the ants emerging from holes in search of heavy things to carry and new enemies to fight...