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A linked series of pastoral narratives set among rocky ridges and village roads, following wayfarers, eccentric locals, and solitary hermits as they confront family tensions, superstition, and the demands of community life. Vignettes move from a young couple reluctant to return to a forbidding household to scenes of abandoned altars, rustic rites, small-town encounters, and reflective walks; descriptive landscape and quiet humor bind the episodes, which examine belonging, memory, and moral perspective through anecdote and gentle allegory.
All honest things in the world we greet
With welcome fair and free;
A little love by the way is sweet,
A friend, or two, or three;
Of the sun and moon and stars are glad,
Of the waters of river and sea;
We thank thee, Lord, for the years we've had,
For the years that yet shall be.
These are our brothers, the winds of the airs;
These are our sisters, the flowers.
Be near us at evening and hear our.prayers.,
O God, in the late gray hours.