Nueva Esperanza

About Nueva Esperanza

Zion faces east, and the sun comes up straight out of Lake Michigan — a plain, enormous sunrise a few blocks from most of town. Nueva Esperanza starts in that hour the whole year through: plow blades and shovels and salt in the dark months, mowers and trimmers and rakes once the ground lets go of the frost. Winter mornings the work is a cleared drive before anyone has to leave the house; summer mornings it's a cut lawn and swept walks before the day turns hot. The name means new hope, and something of that lives in arriving early and leaving a property better than the light found it. It is the same promise in January as in July, carried by different tools.