Two years and 18 days ago, Pattie Wu Murad vanished without a trace from the Kumano Kodo Trail in Japan. Mrs. Murad, age 60, is from Connecticut and was visiting Japan to make this trek. I have a rather unique connection to this story, which I have blogged about for the last couple of years…if you would like to read about it, please see the link in my bio. However, I will do my best to make sure that people in my small corner of the interwebs remember her.
This week, I decided to dedicate my timeline to the mysteries that surround us every day. We drive past roadside memorials and we walk past graffiti tagging that memorializes the missing and the dead. However, we don’t always know their stories. As I learned during my expedition at Montpelier, there are secrets in the soil. There are secrets in seemingly ordinary objects. There are secrets in the water.
Seven years of living in the Midwest taught me something about this time of the year: Spring is when secrets are uncovered. You have an unthawing. You have a change of seasons. You have a change in perspectives. So this week, I ask you to join me as we get comfortable with the uncomfortable.
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