It’s Butterfly O’Clock
3 min readJun 1, 2020
By Maureen Seaberg
In late September 2018, a lone monarch butterfly sailed past the picture window beside the desk at my home office.
I felt an overwhelming wave of sadness as it drifted down the corridor between my house and my next-door neighbor’s in New York City — alongside lilacs no longer in bloom and out to the street in front.
