“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves….Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet Treat the questions of young people as invaluable treasure—
This is my latest meditation on living in spaces shared with people and other creatures, both present and past--our common ground. Originally published in my local neighborhood newspaper and later shared with some on Substack, I now share it with you on the Ghost platform. The sediment of our lives,
I recently decided to leave Substack and instead post my meditations and articles on Ghost. The following is the last article I posted on Substack prior to closing the account. I wrote it in memory of my mother who passed on Christmas Day, 2021. “And the end and the beginning
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