Shelter in Place, San Francisco, February 19, 2021
Now I am enjoying the brilliant magnolia newly visible over our back fence. What beauty, a tree that brims with a thousand blossoms, like a field of tulips reaching for the sun. As I read more stories about the horrible conditions in Texas this week, the lack of all the simple, basic things we take for granted in our lucky lives - heat, water, electricity, safe shelter - the magnolia’s morning gift reminds me how little it takes to make me appreciate my own abundant fortune.