Came home from a (wonderful, wonderful!) week of retreating and writing at Kindling Words West in Taos, New Mexico to find a picture of my congresswoman on the front page of this morning’s paper:

In any other district, of course, this would be far less
surprising and significant and wonderful and heartening a thing.

In this district, it was a lovely way to return to Arizona, especially since our travels began with finding, at our very first, still-in-Arizona Interstate pulloff, this sign attached to a fence:

More later, perhaps, after some catchup and plowing through emails. But this wanted sharing now.