Apprentice to a Mountain: Chapter 1, section 2
To the East of our house is a two lane highway, to the South, the garden and my husband’s parents, to the West, sixty acres of field and deciduous woodlands, and to the North, towering oak trees and some other neighbors.
I am a hermit on a highway.
The gateway into the woods, behind the house and through the field, is a stand of illuminated white birch tr…
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