It’s often what isn’t there that speaks the loudest.

Moment on the Map

This photo captures a memorable moment that has lingered as a personally meaningful image for many years. The sky is awash in gentle sunset tones, with a cloud opening as if to welcome possibility. Dark trees border the scene like guardians, letting the light spill upward. At the center stands a lone shepherd’s hook, empty, curved, simple, silhouetted against the open sky. Something once hung here and will again. But not now. The hook is between what was and what may be.…