The Arc of Narrative

Lynx? Caught on a Vermont neighbor’s “game camera.” What a face …

August is almost over; the forecast shows the latest wave of hazy-hot-humid letting go of us in Vermont on Friday. And I have a lot to do, when that change of weather happens.

But the saying “I’m a human being, not a human doing” is on my mind right now. And I know the past five years have reshaped me in ways I never dreamed of: two-plus years walking with my beloved through his final illness, two years coming to terms with…