The Gift of This Season

photo by Chris Duh Here it is.  December.  The time of year where our hearts long for stillness, serenity and solitude.  And where we seem to be bombarded by everything but.  Black-Friday-this, cyber-Monday-that, sale-upon-sale, and advertisements that make us believe...

Taking Flight

A few weeks ago my mom gave us a jar of parsley with three caterpillars in it.  Two weeks later they turned into cocoons. Two weeks after that I returned home one day to discover that the butterflies had been born and were ready to take flight. Letting them go and...