What is it that threads through our life amongst the trees' nesting, threads through our family, marriage, hopes, pain? What does it take to be here? How can our children teach us about the future, what it means to trust, forgive, continue even amidst the brokenness? How do we learn how to listen to the earth's language of love and not turn away? There are some of the themes that the poems in this collection grapple with.