EDITOR’S Note

THE STRENGTH OF OUR LINES

WHEN I WAS TEN YEARS OLD I LEARNED A HARD LESSON ABOUT trust—and the value of hard work and the power of humility, but mostly trust—that has endured over the years, solidifying into a kind of fence post in the center of my mind that I’ve held on to during turbulent times. On a raw, gray winter afternoon, on the farm in Wisconsin where I grew up, I had been working with my brother, four years my senior, at the woodpile out back. We’d kick at the frozen logs, load the wood into a wagon, then unload it into our basement, via a homemade chute constructed of two-by-fours and sheet metal, where it would be used as fuel for our furnace. I could write a chapter about that chore: the…

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