No Ring. Yet.

Summer                            Sliver of the Waning Summer Moon

Inquiring minds want to know.  No, Antra, no joy yet.  There are still a few possibilities but the weekend trip and a busy day has not left me time to go check.  We have approximately an acre and a half fenced and 2/3rds of that is woods, so we may never find it.

Woolly’s tonight.  We discussed Good and Evil in our own lives.  Tom Crane showed a wonderful documentary about a French region focused on Champion sur Lignon.  The people in this whole region hid Jews during WWII.  In interviews with them after the fact they implied that they just did it.   It was a very moving story.  It hit me especially since they were Huguenots, the group to which John Know belonged.  Their position relative to helping the Jews I recognized from work within the Reformed tradition.  Then, too, clergy played a direct role in the attitudes that led to their extraordinary, yet very ordinary actions.

Who Is a.t.?

Summer                                Sliver of the Waning Summer Moon

Who is a.t.?

a.t. is a personification of Ancient Trails.  Using these initials allows me to write about myself in the third person.  I’m trying it out, seeing how it feels.  Part of the notion is that third person would allow people not familiar with me personally to take more from this website.

The website has had a consistent and satisfying number of hits each day, averaging 500 unique visits.  The number of pages per visit has increased over the last year, so readers stay longer and read more.  All that makes me feel good about writing this.

I’ve wondered what might make ancient trails have broader appeal.  In one sense I don’t care at all, that is, I’m not earning any money from this, nor am I in competition with anyone else.  In another sense, the one that makes me write this at all, I enjoy the idea of more people reading.

Anyhow. It might just be a phase.  Write to a.t. and give him your thoughts.