White Flower

Even late in the summer

Flowering surprises abound 

A flash of white caught my eye and

I turned around 

To see this beauty and 

Another

But by the time I looked again

One had closed and 

The other 

Remained

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.