Where You’ve Always Been

June is a tricky month for me, full of celebrations and remembrances of people loved and lost. Birthdays, for sure, but also anniversaries of loved ones’ passings. Memories swirling together.

As this month winds down, my head and heart are simultaneously full, so I reach for any scrap of paper to play poet. A post-it, an envelope, the notes app on my phone…whatever’s handy so I can capture the flurry. Sometimes nonsensical, sometimes nod-worthy.

Of course, the most resonant voice of ...