We think finding reasons to be grateful is always a worthwhile endeavor. It’s too easy to succumb to feeling hopeless and inadequate to face all the new challenges. But not us! It turns out that life just keeps on going, and so we find new ways to feel close and show our love for each other. We get creative. Like these two young women above who have helped us out so much over recent months.
Here you see Aspen Adams (the one with the chicken), a very talented writer who lost her small brother to cancer when she herself was just a child. Unimaginable loss. A sadness that may always be with her, while inspiring, grounding, deepening. Aspen recently left the Wellstone Center and is working on finding pathways toward becoming more and more of a writer. It needs a lot of courage (besides talent, discipline, sticktoitiveness …) to set your life out to write for life. Aspen also inspires us to be better and hopeful!
We are also grateful for Hannah Richter (the one with the broken hay fork) for helping us out with the daily chores from milking Butterfingers to preparing soil for winter gardening, a hard, exhausting task to do, to painting some of the wood leading down to the main garden in brilliant color. These two Americans are nothing from out of the past, but two forward-looking rebels and we’re excited to read them in the future!