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Dear Folks: August 21, 1988
Dear Folks, I’m starting this letter on a brilliant cool Saturday night just as the sun is setting in a flawless clear sky. We were beginning to think we’d never see such a day again.
The weather forecasters for the past month have been reduced to telling us every day, day after day, that it will be HHH, humid, hot, and hazy, [...]
Dear Folks: July 24, 1988
Dear Folks, I’m looking out the window at a RAINY DAY, HOORAY!!! I was gone for two weeks, and every time I called back, Ruth or Dennis or Anna told me it was 100 degrees and sunny. I didn’t want to come home. I didn’t want to watch what was happening to the garden or the pastures, which were already too [...]
Dear Folks: June 26, 1988
Dear Folks, It’s Sunday morning and the smell of Pine-Sol is wafting upstairs — Ruth must be washing the kitchen floor. Helen is running the vacuum cleaner in the living room, and in awhile I’ll quit writing and clean the upstairs bathroom. It’s busy-bee day around here.
Outside it’s gray and cool, which is a hopeful sign, because, like much of the [...]
Dear Folks: May 22, 1988
Dear Folks, There are two times of year here that so overwhelm the senses and emotions that they are simply indescribable. They are the times of rapid change and natural glory, the beginning of October and the middle of May.
A month ago when I last wrote you there was a little green on the pastures and the daffodils were in bloom, [...]
Dear Folks: April 26, 1988
Dear Folks, I should be writing a column right now, but what I feel like doing is writing to you, spilling out all the experiences and feelings and thoughts I’ve stored up over the last 3 weeks.
I got back last night, delighted to discover, swooping into the Lebanon airport, that while I was gone the snow disappeared, the ponds turned from [...]
