The main room had high ceilings with big windows that gave a front row seat to the forest. The phoenix inside me began to feel a sense of calm and peace. Nature tended to do that to me, but it was so rare that I got to experience much nature living in Manhattan. If I put some thought into it, I couldn’t remember the last time I’d felt peace. I longed for it. For my world and my head and my phoenix and my body to just . . . be.
