I am a multi-dimensional artist and musician in my second year of the graphic design program at LCC. In my free time I pet neighborhood cats, forage for tasty plants, and watch birds. This piece means a lot to me- it brings up themes of grief, darkness, and a thread of hope through remembering we are a part of nature. A quote from Martin Prechtel on Grief: “If we do not grieve what we miss, we are not praising what we love. We are not praising the life we have been given in order to love. If we do not praise whom we miss, we are ourselves in some way dead. So grief and praise make us alive.”