Air heavy-laden with late summer, crickets singing songs of calm, all around lush with the green of abundance. The remnants of muck from a day of meetings and computers and endlessly spinning wheels fall off of me with each step into this kingdom. And when I stop to admire a bushel of wild flowers I thank God for providing this respite so I can breathe again with ease.

Painting: “Summer Landscape” by Yuanyuan Liu