 Those who know me well know that I’m a “Valentine, Shmalentine” girl. Yet this year has to go down in the books as one of my favorites. A bouquet from my friend, Victoria Clausen, who doesn’t just do flowers . . . she does love by botanicals . . . my favorite coffee from a favorite colleague […]  I’ve been approaching the holidays with cautious optimism, bracing myself for the waves of grief I’ve heard will overtake me at random moments these next couple weeks. My plan is in place. Big breath, dive under and listen to the blanketed melody of crest and crash. No one ever taught me about grief. Early on, the nasty […]  She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flittering shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through […] |
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by Kathryn Shilling