I see my everyday life in a historical context. We are living in the midst of history; it's important that somebody keeps records. - Linda Hogan

Most of the things that I did as a child and even as an older growing person were outdoors and were alone. Outside was my church, my place of vision and dreaming.

Love, Lettie thought, it hurts and gladdens us no matter what a woman's age. (p177)

I was seventeen when I returned to Adam's Rib on Tinselman's Ferry. It was the north country, the place where water was broken apart by land, land split open by water so that the maps showed places both bound and, if you knew the way in, boundless. The elders said it was where land and water had joined together in an ancient pact, now broken.
The waterways on which I arrived had a history. They had been crossed by many before me...