Facebook Publication Date: 3/18/2022 12:03

I am lucky, extremely lucky, to serve and to live out my call with a vocation that I love in a profession in which I have made, and, with your support, will continue to make, small but hopefully lasting contributions.

But in this bereavement time, yes, I want to allow myself to also reserve time for contemplation, reflection; even just sitting in a chair watching the sun as it slowly moves to the West.

I want to take a full hour to peel and eat an orange. I want to bicycle with no destination in mind.

I want to be very very still as I listen to what Della and Gladys and Aretha and Mavis and Dianne and Dionne have to gift to me in their catalogs.

I want a day where breathing is my only vocation.

Grinding *can* be a joy. Particularly grinding when there is a purpose greater than yourself. But then– I wouldn’t call it grinding. I would call it purposefully walking towards the star that holds my ancestors.

I want to remember with both complete Grace and utterly Clear Eyes.

I want to take my place as the matriarch of my own life.

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