A country year by sue hubbell6/30/2023 ![]() These essays, written from one spring to the next, not only testify to her wholeness but extend it to all who have learned from Nature the serenity echoed in the book’s epigraph from Rilke: “. ![]() Eventually, Nature itself completed her healing. ![]() Physical struggle to earn a living off 18 million bees redirected her energy. Shock kept her for three years “out to lunch” then, at 50, she began gaining from the Latin binomials of Linnaeus some order over at least the chaos of her surrounding vegetable world. She was 47 when her husband all at once quit the farm, the beekeeping business and their 30-year marriage. Sue Hubbell, daughter of a botanist, a former librarian at Brown University, has been living for the last 12 years on 100 acres in the southern Missouri Ozarks, mostly alone. ![]()
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