I Came Home After Two Weeks Away And My Daughter In Law Asked What I Was Doing In The House I Bought With My Own Money

The sky had clouded over and the air smelled like rain coming. I sat in my usual chair under the eaves and waited. When the rain started, it came softly at first, then harder, pattering on the leaves of the rosebush Harold planted and drumming against the patio stones and filling the yard with the smell of wet earth.

I sat there and breathed it in.continue reading …