1 min readDec 3, 2017
Thank you so much for your kind words, Edd. You have no idea how much your response means to me, especially the mention of one of my best-loved writers, Thomas Hardy, and The Darkling Thrush — deepest winter, a frail little bird who seems to know something. I can see why you thought of the poem.
Thomas Hardy actually lived a couple of miles away from my ancestors. I often wonder whether they knew him. :)