CHAPTER 11
Recovery Versus Burnout
Houses were shut tight, and cloth wedged around doors and windows, but the dust came in so thinly that it could not be seen in the air, and it settled like pollen on the chairs and tables, on the dishes.
—JOHN STEINBECK
A friend of mine is a writer, but he comes from a family of farmers in South Dakota. Recently, he told me a story about the last years of his grandfather’s life. This man had been a farmer his entire life. He’d been working the ground that he got from his father, who came over from Germany after World War I and carved out a life for himself and his small family. The same soil had been in the same family for almost a hundred years.
But as the years had gone on, my friend’s grandfather didn’t ...
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