The Weight of Becoming
We are born into a shape that is not yet ours. It is a soft, shifting thing, like smoke caught in a doorway. We spend our years trying to harden the edges, to find a silhouette that holds against the wind. But the wind is persistent. It carries…
Barbara Bowen
Barbara Bowen is an award winning wildlife and nature photographer and certified Florida Master Naturalist that has keen respect for nature and the outdoors. Barbara enjoys being outdoors and her appreciation for nature radiates itself through…
The Long Shadow of Noon
We spend the first half of our lives gathering weight—collecting stones for the walls, names for the ledger, and memories that cling like burrs to our coats. We are builders, architects of our own busy horizons, convinced that the path ahead…