in those woods.
on my most recent trip home to the area earlier this summer, i was walking on a road near my family home when something suddenly caught my eye in the evening light: an entrance had been fashioned into one of the forests that had been planted more than 20 years earlier.
i made my way in and before long, realized that this forest was much deeper than i had remembered it. then it suddenly hit me: this little forest and the one "down the fields" that i had gone to so many times before, were now connected as one.
it has taken a while, but root by root and branch 