Ithaca’s Public Art Commission selected my design for a mural with the theme “What I love about Ithaca”. My description of what I love about Ithaca, not the land of my birth, but a place I choose to live, aligns with my personal values, with what I love and appreciate in life: I love the land and water. I love being in relationship to the land through food. I love swimming, wading, and kayaking in clean water. I appreciate reflecting on the depth of time revealed in the fossilized remains of long extinct creatures, that once lived here.