Every Time My Daughter Came Home Unresponsive, My Husband Told Me Not to Worry. The Recording in Her Backpack Revealed Why.

She announced that it looked like a pirate’s plank.

I promised we’d repair it, and we did, but I left one small knot in the wood because she insisted it looked like an eye.

The second thing she noticed was the tree behind the house.

She ran across the yard, stopped beneath its branches, and looked up for a long time.

“It feels like a good place to read,” she said.

We put a weatherproof bench there before we finished unpacking the last kitchen box.