30 Dec 2022

Tiny steps downward, so afraid to fall. And she’s fallen this year and many years before. Some rescues aren’t pretty. But if you do get down there, way down to the bottom of it all, slipping over mud and ice and ambivalence and downright exhaustion, you will see it. You will see it.

On an overcast winter day, a waterfall flows among sheets of ice, slate rock, and evergreen trees.

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