I saw today more clearly than ever before the very powerful symbol that is the tale of our two barns, one being taken apart, the other being reborn, both right alongside one another, sharing the same pasture for more than 150 years. This is, in many ways, the symbol of my life, of our lives, Maria and me. I see the old and collapsed barn as the fearful, closed and lonely side of me, and the new barn as a testament to life and renewal. Clearing out one, restoring the other. Everyone working on the barns feels it, sees it. This is why we needed to come here, to give rebirth to life, ours and to this much loved and lived in old farm.