What a whirlwind of changes these past few months! In June, my fiancé Connor and I closed on a 115 year-old one-room schoolhouse located 230 miles north of our current home in Highland Park, MI.
The schoolhouse is made all the more special by its adjacent proximity to the Brown family farm. The farmhouse was once home to my fiancé’s aunts, uncle, and dad, and continued to provide serenity and shelter to his grandparents through their final days. While I never had the pleasure of meeting either of them, it’s been such a joy to get to know them through the land they tended, the trees they planted, and the home – and people – they created.
While Connor and I are both heartbroken to leave behind our beloved community in Detroit, we can’t imagine a better cure for our heartbreak than to wake each day surrounded by acres of trees, some nearing a hundred years-old, planted with such care by family.
We dream of the day when there’s a couch in the schoolhouse for our loved ones to sit on. It’s been our greatest joy in life to date to have spent these past 8 years teaching and learning beside so many of you in Detroit’s classrooms, museums, libraries, diners, and law firms. On its floors and couches and streets. You’ve taught us loving is giving, and living is learning.
How lovely to think that the learning’s only just begun.
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