that feeling you get when you’ve finished, completed or ended something
transitional states
hot, home-cooked meals made with love on chilly days
those who’ve come before me - teachers and ancestors - who’ve walked this path with an open heart
kittens
the trees for honoring their grief through the innate trigger of letting their leaves fall to the ground (the mulching and mourning process is a decay that sinks deep back into the Earth for fortification)