The View From Here: Blessings Great and Small

PALOUSE –– One way people can be categorized is by the way they track the seasons—some depend on the calendar, others by sport schedules, and still others, by the weather. My tracker of choice is the frequency of truck traffic on Route 27.

Another year of crops have been harvested and transported to their storage units, and all is now relatively quiet. The 3 a.m. 18-wheelers that signaled the beginning of another work day are now gone and have left silence in their wake.

Truck traffic, along with field planting and harvest are all segments of the Palouse’s “Circle of Life.” Not being a native,...