By Heart: Notes from a small place in the country

A soundless calm descends...

11/12/2016

© R. L. Whitney.

But first a hush of peace,
A soundless calm descends;
The struggle of distress and fierce impatience ends....

I dare say most of us have known moments such as Emily Brontë describes, though few with the intensity with which she knew them. In my experience they are not frequent, nor are they something that I can call up to suit my fancy.

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We moved to our farm in Sussex, New Brunswick from Toronto in 1977, only moving away in 2014.

For over 30 years of our life there, I wrote a weekly column for the Kings County Record in Sussex chronicling the little events that are the heart of ‘daily life’ in a small place in the country. These blog posts are drawn from those columns.

The weekly column became, over the years, a series of bench-marks or surveyor’s stakes to record the contours of the place we lived, its dreaming hills and fertile valleys, icy chasms and swift-flowing streams.

While I no longer live on the farm, we continue to share the columns from time to time on this blog. And very soon you will be able to read my book! To be published in December 2019.

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Images on the blog are drawn from my own photography, and my wife Alice's artwork. We occasionally resort to other people's images when nothing we have on hand suits the content of the post.

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