The Bench

Drive to the Oak Creek parking lot of the McDonald Forest. Take the Homestead Trail, which heads off west past the porta potty. You'll soon come to a bridge. Take the trail left that follows the stream. You'll come to a bench along side the stream. Take a seat.

That was the day she made herself the promise to live more from intention and less from habit.

- Amy Rubin Flett

And she said, It’s okay that you can’t get over it. Maybe you never will. Maybe that hole will never fill. She said, Maybe your learning to leave it empty is the meaning of your life.

~Heather Harpham

The birds have vanished down the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.
- Li Po