Carving out a peaceful place to work and grow today.  I think it will be one baby step after another when it comes to creating a distance between past tensions and future life.  

Baby step number one....working on the illustrations for my second book, and shifting my thoughts during the day to that.  I have the next two pages in my head, which is becoming a less cluttered place.

Baby step number two...I watched fat drops of rain swell on the ends of the black tree branches in my front yard.  They grew, elongated, disappeared down into the grass and started over again in a new place on the branch.