Be Like the Weeds

A gentle diversion from the chaos

Hope by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1872)

Last Wednesday morning, I realized just as the garbage trucks approached our neighborhood that we’d forgotten to take the trash out. We’d discussed it twice. And yet. 

I raced upstairs for a sweatshirt, ran back down, and ripped the bag out of the can. As I tied it up, found shoes, and got myself outside, all at on…