Resident Notes

First-person accounts digitized from the Journal's working shelves.

Residents wrote about routes, gardens, workshops, lessons, friendships, and the small observations that did not belong in a headline. Journal stewards keep the original Paradise year and season with each note as it is prepared for NW-Net.

Mara Vale

The Long Way Past Apricot Hill

Year 42, Midsummer There are two ways from the north tool house to the lower terraces. The direct path takes about twelve minutes. The path around Apricot Hill takes closer to half an hour. I look aft...