Songs from Fern's Pond: Composing a Life with Courage, Gratitude, and Joy

Reminiscent of Mary Oliver's A Thousand Mornings and Amanda Thomson's Belonging, this evocative blend of poetry, prose, and personal letters unfurls a story of an untamed, beautiful place-and one woman's choice to spend the last chapter of her life making it her home.

At age sixty-two, Fern started a new life.

Recently widowed, she found a piece of neglected acreage above the Snake River on which to build a home, forge a community-and find renewed purpose. On the land around Fern's Pond, she ...