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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Meditations on Barnwood

Meditations on Barnwood

Barber, Bryan

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1365464075
ISBN13: 9781365464072
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Oct 22 2016
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Striking a deal with some old farmers that wanted their barn dismantled, one man, craving a challenge, deconstructed a 100-year-old barn--by himself. Through the last heat of summer, the fair wet weather of fall and the freezing wind of winter he picked apart a building that saw a century unfold. Using prime redwood and cedar the builders expected it to be an icon of the farming culture, but surely they never expected a middle-aged nurse to be the one to slip her mighty beams to the ground and use them in decorating his home. In this poetic adventure of demolition, the man finds more than the prize of wood in his labors and gives a panoramic view of life as an adventurer and somewhat incongruously as a nurse. Both world's collide as he struggles against the behemoth barn and his day job. From thirty feet atop a barn and in the dark cold moments of death in the Emergency Room he tells a story of remembrance, renewal, Zen, fate, fortune, and healing.

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