Legs crumpled in the back seat
Pencil to paper trace travel 30 km
10km
5 km
Crawl along frozen mountain road
White knuckles white snow
Anticipation
Rolling rubber tires deliver us safely into familiar arms
Country walls ring
Laughter never really fades when it bubbles from the very core
Of connection
Reunions so joyous they rival the mountains
Their beauty
A winter wonderland
Glazed in frosting ice
So still and delicately wrapped around every branch, every stubborn pine needle
A trail flattened by thick boots
Trot 6 in a row through powdered sugar snow
Awash in wonder
The river roars beneath its cracking frozen seal
Our jagged human edges drifting closer
Like the ice
Warmed by love and blood
Surging through blue veins
Celebrating Miracles Of breath, body, mind
And choice
Tiny baby fingers reach and grasp firmly around pulsing human heart
