leaving – The Bookshop Barista

Those Who Left the Land

It is no secret that the United States is a land currently fraught with political division. That was quite obvious from the chaos of the summertime to the chaos of the last election. Due in part to the unmissable news headlines, and in part to living alone for the first time 2,000 miles away fromContinue reading “Those Who Left the Land”

Places

We’ve gone and left our home. Our house of wooden boards and thatched roof and empty rooms. We’ve gone and left our home and my sisters have left us, each to their own path. But they went away long before today. Today, though, is goodbye. A farewell that may last forever. We are away toContinue reading “Places”