The sun is on the rise again. Two good friends who really, really need babies have just told me they are pregnant. My mind has soothed itself about the new baby Charlotte. The temperature in my ice-ensconced backyard rose into the 50s today. It is a good day.


Tomorrow my second baby girl will turn two years old. Oh, the race of time. What beauty it brings when we walk slowly through it.

Thinking of warm summer days and the joy to come, when my children can run naked across the common at DeGrassi and splash in the lake of my ancestral home.

Peace be with you.