July 28, 2003
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We pulled into the gravel driveway past the historical marker. I turned around to try to read it . The engraved letters were trying to tell me that George Edwards was born in 1828, and grew up on this farm. When i turned back around, i saw it and its barn, rising out of the flora five stories tall. It stood out stoicly with it's harsh angles and steep corners from the gentle green hillside. It's sharp roof cut into the sky and it's faded skin and skeleton was stained like bandages wrapped around a wounded soldier. Without a word it screamed out at me from the twisted and tangled green of the summer.
Leanne and Elizabeth had driven ahead and were already there. Elizabeth drives, like i picture all Vermonters do, a volvo station wagon. She even has a green canoe to put on top. postcard perfect. The dogs rode ahead with her, and were out with their noses buried in the tall grass by the concrete foundations of long gone grain silos. Their tails stood in full attention, and rose out of the green like golden periscopes in a sea of timothy grass and queen anne's lace.
"Isn't it odd," i said to Woody as he parked the car, "To think about the string of people you have met in your life that has led you to being here right now?"
I could see him give it some honest thought for a minute, then smile with incomprehension.
"Yeah." he then said.
We stepped out of the car and walked up to the stoic barn that rose out of the gentle green hillside.
Jason was sitting in the green grass on a lawn chair. He lives in the front of the barn with his girlfriend, Elizabeth. Jason met Elizabeth a bar in burlington when she was out with her friends. Elizabeth and Leanne met in the fourth grade in Pittsburgh the day they both wore the same t-shirt to school. I met Leanne 12 years later on a dark night as she sat at the end of a dark bar talking to her boyfriend. She had a stack of her resumes in a clear plastic kinkos bag. She pulled one out of the bag and asked me if i thought it looked nice. I met woody when i walked into my freshman college dorm room and saw him standing there with a rachet in his hand as he built a loft for his bed.
and there on the green grass Jason stood up and met Woody and I on a vermont farm in front of a barn during the summer of 2003.
We also met huey; jason and elizabeth's friend, and now also another knot in the thread of the history of my life. We all sat together and had a picnic as we listened to disc two of huey's six-disc box set of classic country tunes. After dinner huey let us ride his 4-wheeler and follow the trails that snaked under the shady trees and along the rocky ridges of the green mountains.
Later we built a bonfire with the shedding skin of the barn. As the sun yeilded to starlight huey broke up a pile of faded boards and threw them on the fire. As the fire burned bright with the wood older than the age of electric light, it lit up leanne's face from across the millennium like a once in a lifetime dream.
Suddenly i began to realize my life is very short, and the long string of connections leading up to the firelight that shone bright in the girl's eyes beside me started long before i was born. and the centuries and eons that have lived and died and fallen like a line of dominoes wrapped around the world to this night, make up my life and all the beautiful things in it.
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