The long journey ahead

Jennifer Sahn

AFEW WEEKS AGO, I followed a hawk that was following the cliff edge above the beach, flying into the wind. It rarely flapped its wings, except when the wind gusted; then it flapped them slowly, just enough to not lose ground — or air, I should say. It reminded me of taking my chocolate Lab tubing on the rivers of western Massachusetts. She’d float alongside us, dog-paddling only when necessary to sustain her momentum or skirt an obstacle, working with, rather than against, the forces of nature. I was supposed to be camping in a sky-island pine forest at 7,000 feet. I’ve been there before, in summer. It was hot and dusty, but the soft breezes wafting that sweet pine aroma made it a haven nonetheless, and I’d been looking…

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