From the beginning…

This was the first-ever post on my original blog, Oberon’s Grove:

On this spring-like morning, I’ve been for a walk in Inwood Park. We are living now at the very northern tip of the isle of Manatus, and in the park a boulder marks the place where the Dutch are reputed to have purchased the island from the native inhabitants. When I am there, I try to imagine what it was like then. In a way, I wish it had remained untouched and un-christianized but then of course I would not be here. I’d be blogging from England or Holland or wherever it was my forefathers came from.

April 13, 2006