Katherine Nicolai
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
and the small decisions that add up to a new path in life.
Settle as comfortably as you can into your bed and feel how good it is to be about to fall asleep.
You have done enough for the day.
Officially, it was enough.
There's nothing to do now but sleep.
Take a deep breath in through your nose.
Let it out your mouth.
Nice.
One more.
Breathe in.
And out.
The short weeks at the end of April and through the beginning of May.
But a step outside my back door would deliver me a lungful of the sweetest smelling air these acres held.
And that's saying something.
Because life out here, on the edge of the woods, near a creek where bullfrogs jug a rum and foxes sleep among the ferns, where stars stand out brightly against the midnight sky,
is already pretty sweet.
It's strange how a casual left turn down a dirt road many years ago had led me to this new life.
I'd been out on a springtime caper
And I do mean that in the thieving sense of the word.
Listen, I return my grocery cart to the corral.