Journeying: Essays
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I live on the
side of a hill in a small town near the Smoky Mountains. My house has a screened porch
that overlooks the woods, and early in the morning I can hear all the birdspileated
woodpeckers, mockingbirds, cardinals. When I first moved into this house I carefully
placed my bed close to a high window that looks out onto a side yard bordered by old
hemlock, cedar, and white pine trees. When the wind rises at night the pine boughs rustle
against the eaves of the roof, and I can watch the clouds moving across the moon. I like
best of all the nights when thunderstorms wake me and I can watch the drama right outside
my window.![]() Many of these essays were written over the years for an Episcopal newsletter column, Journeying. The black-and-white line drawings were scanned and cropped from sketches in my journals. This site updated 06/05 |