A Writer's Ruminations

"I’ve often noticed how when a house is abandoned, it begins to sag. Without a tenant, it has no need to go on. If it were a person, we’d say it is depressed or lonely. The roof settles in, the paint cracks, the walls and floorboards warp and slope downward in their own natural ways, telling us that life must stay in everything as the world whirls and tilts and moves through boundless space."

— Linda Hogan, “Dwellings”