When we talk about the northeast U.S., we usually think about population density. The corridor from D.C. to Philly to NY to Boston is packed with people tighter than anywhere else and driving in that area can be absolutely maddening, but once you escape it and get really north, like Vermont, or really northeast, like Maine, it is a very different story. It’s not Wyoming or Montana in terms of population, but it will do as an accessible outpost of frontier for us
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This was the post I was writing when Lilly died. I got up mid-sentence and walked into my bedroom and saw her on the floor without the chest rises of breath and everything instantly warped into despair. I don’t feel like there is any way I could complete this entry legitimately, so I will leave it with just a few images from the family July 4th weekend on Mt. Desert Island, Maine.
