Returning to the Great Cycles: Hurricane Harvest

Near the Fall Equinox I began to write this piece about harvest season, intending to publish on that day.  For various reasons—from the high-intensity whirl of the school semester starting, to an unsettled feeling I had about the topic—I set the essay aside. Just for a few days, I thought.

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Endings & Beginnings: Grandmother Apple

In the summer of 2014, lightning struck the large old apple behind the house and split the tree in two. We had just purchased this property: two couples and one elderly parent pooling resources and risk, negotiating a five-person mortgage on a former farm in Nova Scotia.

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