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Author Kathleen Dean Moore says that “we’re born into relationships, not just with human beings, but with the land—the beautiful, complicated web of sustaining connections.” My children will be born into a relationship with this land, just as I was. I imagined bringing my children and grandchildren to this very ridge, pointing out the features, naming the trees, telling them stories of their great-great-grandfather and his uncle who used to have a homestead here, recounting how the first hints of love began between their grandparents during a weenie roast.

And then, the tinge of remorse that comes when thinking about starting a family.

If I have children.

Standing there on Rattlesnake Ridge, I became suddenly aware of my blood moving through my body. It was the same color as the maples and oaks around me. A silent word echoed in my mind, bouncing off the walls of the basin and ringing in my ears as the sound of grasshoppers and finches, filling my nostrils with the scent of dust and leaves.