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"I'm writing at the age of eighty-four, with a mind that thinks I'm still in my sixties and a body that says, 'Are you kidding?'"

So begins this luminous collection of essays — a love letter to a long life on Bald Mountain, and a celebration of what growing old with grace can look like. Marilyn moves freely between present and past: from her girlhood in the hills of West Virginia to her home on the coast of Maine, paying close attention to the stillness of the natural world, the animals she has loved, and the people who made her who she is.

This is not a book of regret or nostalgia. It is a book of hard-earned wisdom — about acceptance, about grief, about the strange and quiet beauty of still being here.

"A lovely book to be read by the fire when we are given to be thinking about love, loss, the passage of time, and what it means to be alive in this world."— Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt

Illustrations by Jeffrey Moss.

Cover art by America Martin. Meet the artists.