the sigh of a Delta breeze kissing the grass

Breakfast.

I could not find the world if I searched ten years. I've forgotten the road by which I came.

-Han-Shan

I live in this huge valley, right in the middle.
I’m ninety miles west of the Sierra Nevada mountains,
and about the same east of the Pacific Ocean.
People go there, to both places, for the beauty,
and both are beautiful. But so is my valley.
It is …