This morning I awoke to rain. It is not raining hard but it is raining. We have not had an appreciable rain fall in two months. It is lovely. I plan to bundle up, get a cup of coffee and retire to the front porch to read.
I am grieving that cold weather is coming and will limit my time there. It is amazing what you can learn from from the vantage point of our porch. I have learned more in one year about my neighbors and the community sitting on my porch than I learned in the nine years we lived in our previous house. I am able to discern the rhythm of people’s lives and recognize when there are changes and/or disruptions. It is interesting how relationships evolve slowly and almost imperceptibly. What the front porch provides is proximity. The issue for me is how I will respond. Will I just be an interested observerer?