2018 was a year of returns and resurrections. Every time I reconnected with a long-lost friend, returned to an meaningful place, or even revisited a favorite artist in concert, I had a distinct feeling that loose ends were being tied up, things were being brought to a close, and everything was coming full circle so … Continue reading
It was a corner of Minnesota I had been hearing about ever since I became a friend of Sophia’s: her family farm, and the surrounding town of St. Joseph. This great, and somewhat unusual, meeting place of several different biomes—coniferous and deciduous forests, prairie, and oak savanna—had imbued Sophia with a reverence for the natural … Continue reading
I knew from the beginning that 2017 would be a year of big personal change. I could feel it. I moved—twice. My parents moved out of the house they/we had lived in for the past thirteen years. My aunt sold my grandparents’ dacha (summer home) in Kostroma, Russia—a place I had spent my childhood summers. … Continue reading
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? – J. B. Priestley To be honest, the above sentiment … Continue reading
making ⟷ meaning 