I Walked Into My Mother in Law’s Will Reading and My Husband Turned Pale When the Letter Was Read

military discipline for decades. The air smelled like earth and early summer. Traffic on the distant road hummed like a life continuing somewhere beyond me. I cut a stem, then another, the blades making their clean, decisive sound, and I thought about Margaret in this same garden, doing this same work, maintaining order in the small spaces she could continue reading …