Changing the World, Not the Other Way Around

"I had no idea roan oak, virginia would be where i learned that, as emerson said, to be yourself in a world constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. I didn't know that i look back on snake pond road as sacred graus, as a launch pad to everything that would come next," she says. "Every step we take is a lesson. Every street, sidewalk and path is part of a stor and sometimes we don't under and until we look back at the cha, we don't get it."