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Slow Road Home 
by Fred First (2007)
read: 29 May 2006
rating: [+]
category: non-fiction
In Slow Road Home, VA resident Fred First invites us to join him on his journey to discover his home. I’m not talking about a quest of epic proportions here. I’m talking about Fred getting to know his 40 acres, 1 tree at a time. With a naturalist’s eye, he writes of symphonies of fireflies in his meadow, and the honor of the wood that shades him from the sun as it lives, and heats his home on its death. Fred lives the life I aspire to; busy, but not hurried. There are lessons for all of us in his journey. The world, even our suburban backyards, are wonderous places, if only we would slow down to see it. The book is a selection of essays from his fabulous weblog, Fragments From Floyd, of which I have been a loyal reader for several years.
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