Patchwork Manifesto

The kids and I spent the past week traveling across the country to the West Coast. On the way, we collected stories and songs of the grasslands, of the mountains, of the sea. We watched the landscape change, the changes unfolding slowly across the miles, and I was astonished, as I always am on roadtrips, by the beauty of the earth and of her mutability. While packing our suitcases the day before…