Hi readers! Two new pieces to share with you this morning, both published in magazines connected to our home states.
First, from Ali, “What a 500-Year-Old Tree Taught Me About Putting Down Roots”: on restlessness and sturdiness and “quietly growing, year after year, in the same spot…forging safe soil for wildflowers to bloom.” This piece was published in Texas Highways.
And from Kate, “A Bridge Between”: on her family’s journey to a Columbia River town in order to honor their ancestors.
Yes, they might have played down below on the banks. They just might have! Picnics and bickering and stars. Or maybe it meant nothing to them. Just another spot. We set that aside and have it mean something to us.
This essay appeared in Oregon Humanities.
Thanks, as always, for reading our work! Let us know what you think in the comments.
K + A