Echoes from an Old Hollow Tree
af Ryan B. Anderson
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Reflections on family, nature, and tradition from the end of a dirt road in Vermont.
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- The Liberty of Rootedness · 17 min.Here in the hills of inland New England, you could wander down the road this weekend into the village below. You will be going down to watch the fireworks with your family on the…
- The Green Conspiracy · 5 min.The canopy leafs out and we are suddenly reminded of June’s benevolent conspiracy, its invitation to hide amid the green. The bare, brutal skies of November are on the other side…
- Rebuilding Home · 8 min.People will tell you that “you cannot go home again.” What they mean is that time moves in one direction; the old people die, the stores close, the fields grow over, and the…
- You Need to Find Your Old Hollow Tree · 10 min.There is a tree at the entrance to the forest. It is very old and contains a large hollow in its center. As a boy, I would stop at the old hollow tree, pick up a stone from the…
- There is No False Spring · 9 min.February is so often treated unfairly. We call a run of warm days a “false spring,” as if the month were trying to trick us, as if it had made a promise it could not keep. We…
- A Crisis of Keeping · 11 min.We are in a crisis of keeping, and we need to learn how to hold on to everything again. I have been walking around this truth for years, naming different faces of it, because the…
- The Final Stronghold of Civilization · 10 min.A quiet fatalism has settled over much of our modern culture. You hear the defeatism everywhere. There is a tone of resignation, a soft nostalgia without the accompanying…
- To Stand in the Dark · 7 min.November contains a sort of harsh clarity. We see this first in the natural world; anything extraneous is shed. The trees drop useless leaves and limbs, the hives expel the…
- We Fathers Must Not Let the Fire Die · 9 min.We entered the dark part of the year this past weekend. You crossed over the threshold and now stand closer to the winter solstice than you do the autumn equinox. You’re on the…
- Little Lights and Dark Days · 10 min.The dark creeps in now. It does that this time of year, right before Halloween. You’re in the garden until well past eight o’clock one day and the next you’re huddled by the…
- You Need to Keep Going · 7 min.It is October now, though you wouldn’t know it from the mercury rising the past week. The maples are rapidly growing bare and the leaves are crisp beneath our boots, yet the air…
- You Must Recognize Your Victory Now · 8 min.You’re well on the march to winter now. The solstice came and went back in June and your days became imperceptibly shorter. Lammas came and went quietly with the early harvest…
- How to Find Your Balance in an Unbalanced World · 12 min.We are deeply unbalanced, off-kilter, ready to fall. Take a look at any headlines and no matter your politics or lack thereof, you will likely conclude our entire world is…
- How to Slow Down Time · 14 min.It is late August and the northern places have begun to transform with quiet, unassuming grace. The nights grow cool in the hills and a walk down the road, through the forest, or…
- Flowers Freely Given · 8 min.Author’s Note: this essay is part of the Reports from the High Wood series, a weekly premium report from our homestead that offers enduring lessons for living well in a wounded…
- What We Learn from Dying Flowers · 12 min.It is the middle of August and now we wander through our high summer haze toward the equinox, toward fall. It may feel cruel to speak of autumn as the children yet splash and…
- Three Truths Milkweed Can Teach Us About Parenthood · 9 min.The common milkweed stands tall along the roadsides and fencerows all summer, steadfast and unassuming in the ditches, the hedgerows, the border-places. To some, it is just a…
- You Need to Stop and Smell the Roses or Lose Your Grip on Reality · 11 min.Artificiality is now the norm. Screens can simulate nearly everything, images can be doctored, videos completely fabricated, words twisted, sounds engineered. There, as always…
- Let June Overwhelm You · 8 min.My baby does not want to sleep this week. She wants to stand. She wants to place her hands on my stomach, get her feet under her, and lean gently back. She wants to stand there…
- You Have to Let it Linger · 8 min.The urgency is real now. You feel it in the long stretch of daylight, the way everything grows all at once, in the good green pattern absolutely bursting forth now. Gentle May…
