Refining Trail Lying in my tent, I’m looking through the mesh at stars flickering between the forest branches. After hiking twenty miles on the rocky trail, my body is spent. Yet my mind refuses to rest. Every sense is on full alert, especially hearing. My military years guarding prison camps in Siberia trained my Read More
The Forge
A forge transforms nondescript iron into something useful through the process of refining fire. Аs the blacksmith selects a scrap of rusty metal, he envisions its potential. He lays it under red-hot coals until it glows, then takes it to the anvil and hammers that moldable piece into a valuable, definitive tool. No longer just Read More