Win: Fall

Who'd have thought miserable underemployment would push me to do something so "crazy"...and lead to the best experience of my life? Yet there I was: finally in Colorado, with everything I ever wanted--paradoxically, what most would consider 'almost nothing'. I was houseless...but oh, no, not homeless. I had NEVER been more Home.

Wrapped only in the night sky, my husky, two previously-abandoned cats, and I left our tent on that warm autumn night. There were no leashes, no fences; no bribes or coercions. Only friendship held us together, at cliff's edge, smiling at the blazing yellow moon.