Today’s small moment — a winter pause near the Otter Creek Dam, where the water holds quiet reflections and the stillness along the Blue Ridge Parkway reminds me how important it is to slow down and let a little peacefulness sink in.
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Today’s small moment.
This photograph marks the last time Dad and I crossed into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula together, driving north while my brother was in the hospital. We didn’t know then that he would die a couple of weeks later, or that this trip would later mark the point between life before my brother’s death and everything that came shortly thereafter.
We were together, sharing the same road and the same concern. I don’t usually have the chance to slow down like this, but traffic coming off the Mackinac Bridge that day gave me the pause I needed to notice it—and to take the photo.
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Three good things today:
The steady rhythm of Lake Superior waves at sunset — that familiar, grounding sound that hasn’t changed.
A memory from 2024 with Dad, staying at my grandparents’ cabin west of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, a place that was theirs until the 70s.
Realizing that even now, that shoreline still sounds like home to me.
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