A Little Night Music

At 10:!5 this evening, there were fireworks outside my kitchen window. 

My first thought was, "Yeesh, fireworks? So late?"

And then I thought some more and 

Started to smile.

They were actually quite lovely and

So close I could almost touch them. 

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.