It’s dark now at 6 a.m. Summer has flown by, rich in big moments for my family — love and death and tenderness. And all around us, as always, the great cacophony of the world.
Autumn’s coming, chill mornings, heavier skies. Before letting summer go I want to savor a few moments, not the big ones but the quiet ones.
Coming around a bend on the Stockholm Archipelago Trail last June, we noticed this bent pine close to the water. A fleeting view on a walk along a distant shore, it rings now in my mind like a deep-voiced bell.
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 