The Sweetness of the Pear: Lula

I wished that Claire did not live so far away. I passed several pleasant evenings with the Child's Alphabet of Virtues, trying to bring myself up to speed. I found myself particularly drawn to the letter O. A young couple in hiking boots and woolen sweaters, walking staffs in hand, gazing back down a rocky path and out over oak-clad foothills toward a golden horizon. "From the peak of Oroboro one may glimpse the shining sea."