here are times when we are thrust into roles we do not choose, roles in which we deem ourselves weak. It is in those times that we discover hidden strengths, not because we have sought them, but because necessity has revealed them.
n this historical piece a frontier woman has had to assume part of her husband's role in his absence while also maintaining hers. Mother, wife, and now defender. With great relief she waves her dish rag high as she recognizes the distant figure who will resume his role and lighten her load in "The Homecoming".
