This Substack account officially kicked off on June 6, three years ago. Since then, thousands of you have read the words of a writer living a simple life with two distinctive four-legged friends in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I’ve enjoyed writing letters about our local adventures, day-to-day life, and pilgrimages around the country.
I continue to be a happy solitary, often alone but rarely lonely, who embraces the quiet life and is fortified by spending time among trees more than in society. Some are built this way, and others grow into it. It took me nearly five decades to realize my love of the natural world, which is stronger than ever.
My beloved Henry David Thoreau penned in Walden, “Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundr…
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