nesting

remember that 100 year old (12 ton) oak tree that fell on my house last july? well, it damaged about half of the house including crushing the trusses in the roof. so for the past five months there has been nothing but a blue tarp between me and the minnesota weather. well, the insurance and the restoration companies finally agreed on how much damage was done and how much it would cost to repair it all. so yesterday, i finally got a roof!

what a crazy year. when the canadian wildfires were raging this summer, we minnesotans were for the first time threatened with air that was too toxic to breathe. i found myself at various points this year truly grateful, in the deepest way, for clean air, clean water, and even for a roof over my head!  clean air, clean water, and shelter! as a young adult growing up, i was naïve enough to not only take those three thing for granted, i didn’t even think about those things. ever. they just were, and always would be be.

time have changed. my kids, both young adults who have just fledged, don’t take clean air and clean water as a given. they know far more than i did at their age. and they carry the anxiety of knowing in their bones. i wish it didn’t have to be so.