We are proud to announce a new essay in our essay series, this time by writer and artist, Merle Dillon. Merle is facing big changes to the home that she loves, and we can hear in her essay an echo of Emily Dickinson: “How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!” But there ARE indeed intruders here, of a more pervasive kind than Merle alone can conquer. I still have faith in her, though. And faith in the love of home, and the love of a world that does not need us, but still allows us in.