Fall is for Horses...and Reading!
Life happens, and it's been quite a summer. First, my amazing niece got married and I was a co-officiant with her pastor. I was delighted to be in that role and even as delighted to be part of what I've said was a High Church Baptist wedding. Then, a month later, my father died...unexpectedly but his health had not been, well, healthy, for a few months. His presence with me and my sister and his grandchildren can best be described as when we were convenient for him. After he divorced my mother and very quickly remarried, he decided to his a hard reset button, and his life before that (including his daughters) was at best an annoying reminder of the first forty years of his life. My sister and I keep saying that one day the whole thing will be the kind of stories we laugh until our sides hurt, but right now it's just messy. Then I did the Camino de Santiago...by HORSEBACK! It truly was the pilgrimage I didn't know I needed. To be taken on the Way with a horse whose name...
