Walking Home Comes Home

Many thanks to E.C. Moore for including my guest post "Walking Home Comes Home" on her beautiful blog From One Bird to Another yesterday.

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I walk through the deep forest of Schmitz Park, my daughter's unruly dog chasing scents and shadows in the underbrush, my notebook and pen in my backpack. I need this time alone with the dog in the woods, woods that remind me of the wilderness of my childhood. I imagine a day long ago, before my parents moved their growing family from this West Seattle neighborhood to the Issaquah Valley at the foot of the Cascade Range. I see myself a child of four or five walking these same paths with my older siblings. I marvel at life's journey and struggle to make sense of the chaos of the last five months. My mind tracks backwards outlining as though I were writing an absurdly early holiday letter.    Read more ...