British reading of an American Memoir on a house in Vermont
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EnglishVoice Age
Senior (55+)Accents
British (England - South East - Oxford, Sussex) British (General)Transcript
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two summers ago, my siblings and I found my late parents' former house in northern Vermont listed on Airbnb. Once we got over the shock, Wait, That's our house. We immediately made reservations to rent it for a family vacation. The new owners had known my parents and generously waived our rental fee upon realising who we were. The online description Rustic retreat brought back memories of countless family gatherings of summers past, taking long walks, swimming in the lake, eating local corn and blueberry pie. I remembered hanging out together on the deck that extended into my parents' gentle, south sloping meadow like appear, appreciating the peaceful view of hayfields, spruce trees, mountains and an ever changing sky. I looked forward to the reunion for months, and yet as I drove with my wife and young Children along winding mountain roads that I knew by heart, I was surprised by the emotions stirring inside me. I began to realise something that should have been obvious. This special idealist place that I was so excited to return to wasn't a repository of just happy memories, but of difficult ones, too. My parents had been concerned about the political and environmental trends in America. Their place in Vermont was meant to be a political statement in the form of a modern day frontier house hand built off the grid and completely D i. Y. In other words, it was very difficult to live in and maintain now that many of their worries about climate change and political unrest have become a reality, I understand the presence of their vision and the virtues of the life they were designing. I also realised something even more important, however, when I rented their house as an Airbnb. No matter how hard you try to escape the future, the future will find you anyway.