I pulled up the winding driveway, got out of the car and breathed in the silence of the mountain air and then……exhaled. I was just supposed to load up the car with boxes and head into town where we live, but I find myself compelled to stay, to rest, to reflect. That is what this home and land encourages, so it feels only natural to begin this post from this intuitive response to stop and write. After building the home by hand, raising our sons for two decades, then the last