Elena
After picking up Sondra’s pain medication, I race home to my sons. The women are out working the ranch, tending to the animals or picking fruit and vegetables from the fields. It’s hard to wrap my head around the knowledge that we’ve created this peaceful little piece of tranquility out here. It was once a rundown ranch, the fields of vegetation dying out, the cattle not being tended to the way they needed. The main house has since received an uplift and everything is now flourishing out here.
Pulling up, Sondra is waiting on the porch in her rocking chair, my mother staring at her worriedly, which makes my brows furrow in confusion as I climb out of the car. Luke is up the side of the house, chucking wood into a wheelbarrow to take to the women and inside the packhouse.
“Hey, El
