“It was his pasture that kept him going, Will, his dream of something better.”

“But he never got it.”

“Sometimes that happens. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t dream, shouldn’t have a Morgan’s Pasture. Think about that when your father comes home so tired that all he wants to do is sit. He’s earned it, Will, because doing work well is always harder than not. That’s what he’s teaching you when he makes you do a good job. The lessons are for you, not him. And so is his hard work. He does it for you and your sister.”

~ Wallace J. Swenson, Morgan’s Pasture (pages 54–55)
(Due for release from Three Muses Press, May 2009)