It is the gift of stories that most repays life among settled people.

“We look up, if only to see if we're likely to be rained on. The sky calls atten…”

“Himalayans (blackberries) seize the land, gobbling acres, blanketing banks, con…”

“Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the s…”

“the crushed carcasses of slugs and frogs mixing with the Cretaceous carbons of …”