… We were half-wild creatures, messy mistake-makers, just beginning to understand how to live lightly. Hooting and hollering through the forest. Leaping and dodging through the brush. Bird-calling and doe-stepping. Howling like wolves …
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The Way of the Leaves: Part II
I. Summer opens wet and green: foolish as first love. Each leaf unfurls, fearless of frost. It cannot imagine such a thing as Winter. II. I have a certain memory: I am just a girl — nine, maybe ten. I am balancing on the long railing that runs around our family’s big raised deck. One foot […]
