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What summer needs is found in winter. What winter needs is found in summer. What I need is found in you. What you need is found in me. To endure our seasons, we need each other’s warmth. Summer is leaving. Autumn will pass, and then winter will come. The time when the world needs our warmth.

In English, “That’s a good question” does more than one thing. Sometimes it means exactly what it says. Other times it signals that the question resists a simple answer — that something deeper is being asked, and the speaker needs a moment to find their footing. Good questions and foolish ones have this in common: neither yields easily to

With the idea of tending a small garden, I built a raised bed in the side yard last year, as I had the year before. The one I built earlier was better, taller, sturdier, but it was too far from the water, and the weeds around it grew wild and tall, making it difficult to reach. So I made another, closer this

A horse stood in the field, head lowered, grazing, until it sensed me and broke into a run. I had never seen a horse run from so close. Its chestnut mane streamed behind it, its body settling into rhythm like a melody moving across a staff. What came out of me was a single word, barely a whisper: Beautiful. I

It was good to see old friends again. I had known it already, but still— they were, each of them, good. You spoke about the unfairness of the world— why some are given so much—wealth, ability— while others are left with so little; how those who have seem only to gain more, and those without