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Adventures in Contentment
·
David Grayson
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Several
times
I
have
passed
John
Starkweather's
home.
It
lies
between
my
farm
and
the
town,
though
not
on
the
direct
road,
and
it
is
really
beautiful
with
the
groomed
and
guided
beauty
possible
to
wealth.
A
stately
old
house
with
a
huge
end
chimney
of
red
brick
stands
with
dignity
well
back
from
the
road;
round
about
lie
pleasant
lawns
that
once
were
cornfields:
and
there
are
drives
and
walks
and
exotic
shrubs.
At
first,
loving
my
own
hills
so
well,
I
was
puzzled
to
understand
why
I
should
also
enjoy
Starkweather's
groomed
surroundings.
But
it
came
to
me
that
after
all,
much
as
we
may
love
wildness,
we
are
not
wild,
nor
our
works.
What
more
artificial
than
a
house,
or
a
barn,
or
a
fence?
And
the
greater
and
more
formal
the
house,
the
more
formal
indeed
must
be
the
nearer
natural
environments.
Perhaps
the
hand
of
man
might
well
have
been
less
evident
in
developing
the
surroundings
of
the
Starkweather
home--for
art,
dealing
with
nature,
is
so
often
too
accomplished!
But
I
enjoy
the
Starkweather
place
and
as
I
look
in
from
the
road,
I
sometimes
think
to
myself
with
satisfaction:
"Here
is
this
rich
man
who
has
paid
his
thousands
to
make
the
beauty
which
I
pass
and
take
for
nothing--and
having
taken,
leave
as
much
behind."
And
I
wonder
sometimes
whether
he,
inside
his
fences,
gets
more
joy
of
it
than
I,
who
walk
the
roads
outside.
Anyway,
I
am
grateful
to
him
for
using
his
riches
so
much
to
my
advantage.
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