Sabbath

The day is spent

Reading

At rest and

In prayer

There was but one 

Vigorous thing here

Flowers

From my mother's garden

I brought them with me 

Yesterday

They drank the water from the vase and 

Spent themselves

Creating Space: Three Months of Showing Up for What's Showing Up is a daily writing practice. Turns out that a lot of this writing explores the landscape of grief. My mother died shortly before I began this writing, and this is what I'm thinking about most of the time these days.

Katherine Cartwright has been blogging since 2012, and each year brings new wonders. She asks big questions of the small things in life.