My path into the forest. © Dietrich Ruehlmann

Winter

Slowing down to touch life

January 2022. COVID is burning through the land like a forest fire, followed by death, sickness, fear, and desperation.

When can I go back to normal? What actually is “normal”? It’s been so long, I forgot.

The “holiday season” (oh, how I hate that term) is over. Fake Santas ho-ho-ho-ing down fake chimneys and dropping microplastics under fake trees. The…