(Pictured here are ripples frozen in ice)
While wandering among trees, mud, and all that remains left untouched I thumb through the pages of some cerebral atlas. The stuttered hoo-h’hoo-hoo-hoo-ing of a great horned owl tickles the silence of naked trees both young and old and I pause. I spy the bird before it spies me and we share in a second of pure, unadulterated silence. I drag my heel through the dirt in some feeble effort to clear a path for myself. Oh, you’d love this. I suppose you will in time. In time. The day wanes so fast, yet time so slow. I glance at my watch and humor myself with the convenience of changing the hour on a whim just by twisting the crown. How peculiar it is to see the minute hand nudge further around the watch face while time stands still. At least for you.
I digress to that atlas in my head and earmark a page—for it is there you will be in time. And until that time? Well, Mother, somewhere there is a heart-shaped trail—well-trod—where people walk for you infinitely.