Nobody lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
    -- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

For Borden

In 1938, near the end of a decade of monumental turmoil, the year's number-one-newsmaker was not Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hitler, or Mussolini.

Somewhere in the high country that once was Ridgewood, the tree lives on, watching over the bones of Howard's beloved Seabiscuit.