It's all about balance ...

Time flies ... still voraciously reading Sylvia Plath, reflecting on mom's surgery, and starting another school year.  Alan and I took the canoe to Pike Island on Friday afternoon (brought the motor in case the old woman got tired of paddling upstream Mississippi River!).  Amazing island and the spirits of the land were feisty.  This island was used as an internment camp for native women and children during the Dakota War of 1852.  We sat on the sandy shore reflecting on mother-child relationships across time and cultures.