NARRATIVE of WARD COURIER

August, 2011

RUSKIN, NY

A strange nostalgia comes over me at the end of every summer. I always have a checklist of ambitions before the school year ends. I make resolutions, inevitably to use the free time to become more scholarly, more contemplative, and more patient - in short, more Zen. I always end up doing the same thing, which is almost the opposite. I spend most of the summer expiating the school year before, in a frenzy of ...