January – Wintering

January – Wintering

“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximizing scant resources, carrying […]

Looking Back & Ahead

Looking Back & Ahead

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” – Henry David Thoreau The woman frowns at me.“Fotos?” she asks.Her voice is clipped. I swallow, nod, and point at one of the labels on the table. “Sim.”My voice wavers.She sighs, turns away from me abruptly, grabs two labels from a display case and follows her husband […]