Article: ISOLATED AREA YIELDS A BOUNTY OF WISDOM.(What's Happening)

Season upon season, Sumner MacLeish missed the honeysuckle and sun of her mother's garden in Washington, D.C. Yet she found them poor comfort in 1994 upon moving back to the city from Alaska's Pribilof Islands, her home for four years.

``The first year-and-a-half, I woke up almost every night in tears,'' she said. ``I really missed the village. I missed village life. I missed my friends. I missed the wildness and the openness and the sounds of the seals at night and the space. I just longed for it. And it was very, very difficult.''

As MacLeish adjusted to the rhythms of city life and grieved her dissolving marriage, she began to realize that leaving ...

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