The Weight of Indigo
There is a specific, heavy blue that arrives just before the rain in mid-July, when the air turns thick and the light loses its ability to travel through the atmosphere. It is a saturated, bruised colour that seems to pull the horizon closer,…
The Weight of Small Ambitions
I walked past a lemonade stand this morning, run by two kids who looked like they were barely tall enough to see over the table. They were so serious, adjusting their handwritten sign and checking their change with the gravity of CEOs. It made…
The Persistence of Memory
Deciduous trees do not merely shed their leaves; they undergo a process of abscission, a deliberate sealing off of the connection between branch and stem to ensure the tree survives the coming frost. It is a quiet, structural letting go that…