envelop

It’s a decision that was partly spiritual: when the world feels unmoored, it seemed perhaps worth remembering that our predecessors relied on the seasons as enveloping promises of change.

As the stakes get higher, the plot ripples out into larger and larger concentric circles that envelop Maggie’s life and everyone in it.

The smell was almost exactly the same — sweet, sharp, buttery — only bigger, more enveloping, as if her tray of sliders had expanded into an entire planet of dough.

“One of the worst things is remembering when I went to pick my daughter up from the lower yard, enveloped by smoke and flames,” said Andrea Samulon, who lost her home in the fire.

Almost immediately, though, they felt enveloped by the kindness of the community.