Neurodivergent Nurses Returns to Fredericksburg, Texas🌈

After 16 (long) years, I have headed back to Fredericksburg for my birthday. My loving sister and her husband and our friends decided to give me a lovely treat on my birthday.

I am seeing the countryside and the town through different eyes. We came here many times in the 1990’s when my kiddos were small. Today, I notice the colors of the Texas limestone that has been used in so much of the buildings and houses. The eternal tranquility of the Texas Hill Country sings to me with its scrub oaks, areas of pine forest and small, verdant creeks and streams. I notice that even the smells are the same—(yes, part of my neurodivergence, I notice and remember smells) -notes of sage and mountain cedar. Much of the grasslands have turned to straw in the summer heat but there has been rain here I can tell from the new growth in the trees and also the shrubs. Also, one tends to notice the full and thriving rivers and creek beds.

The absence of sound in what is relatively a small city in comparison to Houston is like a balm to my burned-out mind.