The Water Has Not Heard
on the seed “what keeps being true?”
My mother asks the same four questions every morning now, in the same order, and I have learned to answer them like weather.
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The water does not know what kind of year I am having. It comes in anyway.
For most of my working life I was the one who held the plan. Then my mother started forgetting the stove, and my daughter started needing me home by six, and I found I could not hold both the plan and the people. I chose the people. Nobody warns you that the choosing is the easy part, and the Tuesday afternoons are the hard one.
I am not a writer. I sit with a question on my walk by the Tejo and see what the water does with it. This is my first season with seeds & shoots.
My mother asks the same four questions every morning now, in the same order, and I have learned to answer them like weather.
read itThe cost showed up in the people who stopped calling. Not a bill you see until it is long overdue.
what is the cost of your current pace?One reasonable yes at a time, until the sum of them was a life I never quite chose.
how did you get here?