This is the road I walk late in the afternoon, when my mom is calm or napping. This is a perfect road to walk, devoid of traffic, the cloudless sky a sunny blue, the shadows cool, the trees still full and just starting to color. Two hawks glide on the currents above the mountain, but they are too far away to catch with my camera. This road is one of the reasons I can live here, where her tears run endlessly like the stream that feeds the pond beyond the soundless forest.