When some plants need repotting, they send out signals: drops of moisture along a leaf blade, a sudden autumn of leaves at their base. No one saysthis is metaphor, though I too have taken such liberties, assigning meaning whereit did not necessarily originate. Butwhen it comes, it brings with it a shock of recognition. Other …
Once I was afraid of leaving the place where I spent nearly all my life, within long-cultivated networksof friendship and work; doctors, neighbors,familiar haunts, the place where my kinare buried in the shadow of the hills. Then I moved away, and built up a lifeall over again. That fear is still there, but now I …