“It’s like you looked both ways before crossing the street and then an airplane hit you,” a friend said to me about the times we’re living through.

That’s one way to sum it up! But as I sit here at the beloved Farmhouse Table at Hedgebrook, the view is as bucolic as ever – the rich array of green and blue hues, llamas grazing, wildflowers waving and the sunlight enlivening the Salish Sea.