Birds of Uncertain Passage

The author sold the family house and moved across the valley to a rambling Victorian mansion after she read these words in Isaiah, "Enlarge the limits of your home. Spread wide the curtains of your tent. Let out its ropes to the full and drive the pegs home." It took four months furnishing with cast-offs from relatives and friends. The followed the mortifying experience of being vetted as foster parents with all faults and frailties on view. This is the story of what happend next.