The Book Beneath the Barn
In this voiceover essay, I trace the long arc from cleaning stalls in the Dark Corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains to stewarding a farm, leading a community, and finally turning toward the book I have been circling for decades.
What begins as a reflection on land loss and self-censorship widens into something more foundational: free expression, oral tradition, and the responsibility of carrying forward knowledge that lives in land, animals, and lived experience. I speak candidly about fear, second-guessing, and the temptation to edit myself in a cultural moment that rewards sound bites over…
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