Homesteading the Seam

The Edge Effect

Edges are where things happen. Where a forest meets the prairie, where a river flows into the sea, or at nearly any other boundary between two ecosystems is a cauldron of biodiversity. All the species that thrive in each of the two environments are present, plus new species that live in the transition zone between the two. The edge is richer than what is on either side. Any fisherman knows this. He doesn’t cast his lure into the center of the lake, but toward the shoreline where fish gather to feed on the flourishing life in the shallows.   –Toby Hemenway

Soon to be unemployed, I was overwhelmed with fear of losing my income.  Those feelings soon passed, and as I now work through my last few weeks of work as a communications writer at a University, I see the approaching time as an opportunity to fully return to my own fiction writing. 

“Homesteading the Seam” is a blog about the transition of leaving a job and returning home to do work that feeds the spirit. It is mostly about my quest to find a simpler life, where the land I live on matters.