The Writing

I spent ten years flying for an airline, living in Alaska. Then came the Tracker School. That’s where the real change happened, and it led to South Dakota, and the home of a Lakota elder. Twenty years in Sweden followed. The last four have been here in Transylvania, rebuilding a 400-year-old Saxon farmstead by hand. Most of what I know about living on land came from those places, and most of it came the hard way.

What follows is that life told five ways: as fable, as the near future it seems to be heading into, as the plain account of a leaving, and finally in my own voice, looking back. Start wherever you like — they intertwine.