Another academic calendar concludes and commencements … um … commence.
From the Great Lakes to the Salt Lake, the mission to fan creative flames remains. It is still difficult to fully express the gratitude felt for the closure we found in the forest, but it is there, and it runs deep. And it helps to focus the eyes forward and firmly into the future.
Cultivation. Prepare the soil and maximize fertility. Tend to the growth with water and weeding. Admire the fruit but know that it is not yours to enjoy. But it is perfectly okay to be proud and to adore and to cheer. Then turn the soil and start again with the new batch of seed. And so it goes.
Summer will be busy.
Let’s try to remember to relax.