Clearing Land — Industrial Style

BethKanell
9 min readMar 18, 2024

In real life, unlike in the adventure and crime novels I’ve written and read, things don’t change overnight, and a day is not crammed with significant decisions. Except when change takes over.

In January 2021, I shifted from “stuck” on what to do after Dave’s death, to owning a trash-strewn parcel of land less than a quarter mile up the ridge from the Huge House that Dave and I had bought and transformed…

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BethKanell

Braiding loss, joy, love. Award-winning author of YA adventures like This Ardent Flame; The Long Shadow, more. bethkanell.blogspot.com; member SinC, NBCC.