He Told Me To Leave My Own Mountain Home Until Strangers Arrived To A Lesson They Never Forgot

had learned, over the course of a long and mostly quiet life, that saying nothing is a remarkably effective instrument, and that it is almost never used, because most people cannot stand the sound of their own words hanging in the air unanswered.

Daniel could not stand it either.

“You know what,” his son said, “if you don’t like it, go back to the city.continue reading …