34 Things I Know
On the eve of my 34th birthday this week, I was sitting in bed reflecting about the things I knew to be true and started writing out a list. Before I knew it, I had 34 things on my list and had posted it on social media. I sometimes use social media as a short-form way of writing. My captions are often a way for me to write small snippets when I do not have the energy to do a full-form essay like I typically write on here. Today as I rewrite them, I am sitting on our back porch which has become a sort of haven for me. I am watching our puppy tear up squares of sod and throw them around like a toy, and yes, I am simply allowing it. It is sod that we dug up ourselves from our yard so that we could clear space to build raised garden beds for our vegetable garden. Our garden has always been a happy place for me ever since we started planting seeds 9 years ago in our 1930s bungalow home in Broad Ripple; this year, in our midcentury home tucked away in the Blue Ridge mountains, the gar
