LOST AND FOUND

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea."
~e.e. cummings~


















{final photo, amazingly blurry, but taken with much love by my daughter featuring my mother, my sister, and I at the very high-class--note: glass and expensive antiques plus my three children and a heady dose of maternal anxiety about what all of that could equal--at my fellowship awards reception where our secretary of state gave me my certificate "For Artistic Excellence in Literature-Fiction". Sigh...that day came on the heels of my seaside weekend writer's conference where I can honestly say I started to feel "found" after some extended time lost. How good it feels to be circling back to myself again...migrating home.}