Description
Bill Felker’s HOME IS THE PRIME MERIDIAN: ALMANAC ESSAYS ON TIME AND PLACE AND SPIRIT is a collection of forty-one brief essays taken from the nature column and almanac he has has written for several regional and national publications since 1984. The “time” selections are descriptions of and reflections on the seasons in his village of Yellow Springs, Ohio. The “place” essays focus on his relationship with the environment in which he has lived much of his life. The “spirit” essays connect Felker’s observations of local events in nature with the awareness of his own fallibility and mortality. He shows how his encounter with the world around him (home) is the path on which he finds meaning in his life.
