For six years, we tended to them—my husband and I—two beautiful thread agaves, potted outside our adobe front door, nestled on either side of the entry like silent guardians. They sat inside a small courtyard among bougainvillea and hummingbirds, enclosed by a Santa Fe blue gate and an adobe wall. Their spiky, lizard-green thorns were […]
Hello Brave Soul, While the calendar may have flipped weeks ago, today is when the energy of renewal truly takes root. Unlike the Gregorian calendar, which follows a fixed, man-made structure, the Lunar New Year aligns with the first new moon of the lunar calendar, connecting us to Mother Earth’s natural cycles. Celebrated by many […]
Your body left mine on the new moon. One month ago, today.I pick up Arjan from daycare and head home on a dusty road in Morongo Valley as hefalls asleep in the back seat. The cholla cactus glistens in the summer heat; its needleslook like stars. I feel sunbaked. The air conditioning blasts. Tears start […]