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Welcome to The Walters of Oakfield—short stories about an inimitable family and a place in time remembered.
Epigraph
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile, the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting---
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
Wild Geese
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Fredrick A. Schrank
Growing up in rural Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Fred was the first person in his family to attend college and he earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He started writing short stories after a decades-long career in education, psychology, and publishing as a specialist in assessment that culminated with leading a team of distinguished colleagues in a revision of a set of widely-used psychoeducational tests. In 2018, Fred was named a Fulbright Specialist by the U.S. Department of State, a civilian honor, as a visiting lecturer at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
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