This is my symphony

What I read & what I lived …

My Christmas gift to myself this year was a pair of shelves I bought on Etsy, beautiful reclaimed wood with hand-forged brackets. I’d wait, I thought, for my son to hang them when he visited this summer, so after I unboxed them, they sat stacked against the wall. Waiting. But then I got to thinking. …

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The times they are a’changing. Nights have been in the fifties, summer’s humidity is gone, and last week my home town even squeezed in a few rain showers. Next week our temperatures return to summer, but it’s clear the end is near. I went to a greenhouse last night for “Mums and Merlot,” a little …

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