Sunset on Lake Ontario perfectly captured our introspective mood as we turned west, leaving New England.
Year 2 of our pilgrimage began on July 19, after six weeks of visits with family and friends in New Hampshire which concluded with a remarkable reunion of four generations of my Vincent/Vicente family. It was a hard leaving that shook me to my roots. The closing lines of Mary Oliver’s poem “In Blackwater Woods” echoed in my heart: “to live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal, to hold it against your bones knowing your life depends on it, and when the time comes to let it go, to let it go”. Breathe.
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