Framing a Life, Building a House

What does it mean
to build a house?
How can it change a life?
What happens if the builder is a woman, a teacher
and a writer, a woman unaccustomed to tools?
How does such a woman come to build at all?
What happens, then, if that first house, whose
every nail is known, is sold? How does one leave
such a house, leave and go on to build another?
This is a building story, but more it is a story of
a woman builder and those without whom she
could not have built. It is about how building
changed not only that woman but also her sense
of what a house is, how she came to know that
building houses of wood builds the house of
the spirit.