The Gift and the Challenge
I could start with the tent. Which was not where it started, but was in fact the most recent “rediscovery” of this strange and wonderful year. I will be going kayak-camping this fall, and so I needed a tent. But I thought I already had a tent – which I couldn’t find. So I hied myself off to Sports Authority (with a coupon!) to get a bare-bones backpacking tent. Mission accomplished. Three weeks later, with a (returned) ladder, I worked my way to the back of the loft in the shed and found – the original tent. Nicely packed in its blue stuff sack, complete and, surprisingly, without mold or mildew or rot. It’s been that kind of year. A year of rediscovery. Last fall, an e-mail out of the blue from Permuted Press started the process of bringing my first novel, Neena Gathering , back to life after 25 years out of print. New cover, new electronic edition, even a new voice for Neena through an Audible book. An anthology on Persephone is going to reprint "Persephone in