Gather Round the Fire

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Today is my 36th birthday. In the past 17 days, my life has changed immensely. I’m in that liminal space, still barely able to find my footing, grieving the comfortable life I lived in Portland, the city of my birth, and welcoming in this new, uncertain chapter that I’ve chosen out here in the windswept Columbia River Gorge.

I’ve moved to the small town …