Walking Each Other Home
We are on a late afternoon walk, my 10 year old daughter and I, on this Wednesday afternoon. School and work are done for the day, and we settle into a brief pause before homework and dinner and the evening routines. We walk towards a gravel path that winds over mossy green hills and creaky wooden bridges. One of our favorite routes to walk. Having rained earlier in the day, clouds intermittently come together and dance apart, shadows arrive and shadows disappear, as the