“For being human, we remember and forget. We stray and return, fall down and get up, and cling and let go, again and again. But it is this straying and returning that makes life interesting, this clinging and letting go – damned as it is – that exercises the heart.”
— Mark Nepo

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a morning walk with Percy, looking for bugs, a quick text exchange with a close friend, a reminder to reach out, the late afternoon light, blooming rhododendrons. .