Friday Letters

I am in Colorado this week spending time with my parents. As I was sorting through images to select for this week’s letter, I was drawn to this painting created just before we left Colorado and moved to Washington. What strikes me about it now is how it captures the colors and mood of the weather most days here in the PNW. As I think of the start of the year, I am suddenly intrigued to consider geography and navigation as reference points to chart a path for 2024. Usually I am obsessed with creating goals. But this painting got me thinking about geography instead and how location and our surroundings dramatically impact who we are and what we become.

Beauty and loss

 

Death is a mystery that we walk towards. A contract of being human, our life is defined by the two bookends, our birth and our death. And that is a beautiful contract.