Children have resumed their slalom runs around and beneath the furniture, an assemblage of many generations of wood and tastes which nevertheless mesh together. Windy, New Agey sounds had come out of the tape deck earlier. Miles Davis replaces them. In most of America's dens the Dallas Cowboys are giving Miami a 20-0 indigestion. Television is not allowed on Alpha property.
Conversation is sport.
With friends, the Esteses began looking for land to start an alternative community. The land in Oregon was the most appealing. We didn't have a dime. The part of the farm house where we'd just finished dinner, and where Jim and Caroline were sitting, was once a post office run by a postmistress whose daughter was named Alpha. The name stuck.