Essay published in The Calendula Review: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Issue 3, Inhale/Exhale, Fall 2024
As we age, our experience with beauty and nature can become more precious, if we are open. This is especially true as we confront the fragility of our own human frame. The theme of this journal was “inhale, Exhale” and, in my life, I grow to appreciate the blessing of each breath, in and out.