My pandemic preface is likely not much different from yours. The switch from "normal" to not was sudden. We didn't know that by early spring, 2020, we would enter a pandemic that would snatch millions of human lives, and engender fear and grief in those of us who lived. How to survive these sorrows? Taking photographs and writing haiku helped me. Both the camera and the pen guided me into recognizing and appreciating beauty within the simple experience of daily life. This act felt even more necessary when navigating hardship. Through this book of photos and haiku, I invite you to listen more deeply to your own wounds, and to find glimmers of healing through the beauty that also fills your life.