Years that answer

‘There are years that ask questions and years that answer.’

Zora Neale Hurston

I wish I could claim Zora’s line as my own. It’s astonishingly profound, isn’t it? I think I was edging towards the meaning, when I wrote my own lines almost exactly a year ago:

My own children are moving further away, geographically and emotionally. Plus, this year two close f…