This book depicts the simple and warm life of the author after she settled in a new home in a remote mountain valley. In the autumn of 2013, the writer, Hyewon, ended her complex and exhausting life in the city and took her first steps into a remote rural village. She said she was more nervous on the night when all the noise and lights of the city had disappeared than the first night of her honeymoon. She thought, “Will I be able to settle down here?”

 That was how five years began. Hyewon continues to greet the spring, summer, autumn and winter of the mountains with her whole body. Soaked in the life of the mountains and the fields that move along with the seasons, she is having fun enjoying the details. Of course, she did feel some consternation when she had to surrender her carrot patch to the elks and her sweet potato field to wild boars. But she laughed it off claiming that it was also a part of life, where people live together with animals and nature.

 “With the energy from the earth, water, wind, and sun, the tiny seeds sprout, extend their stems, leave and bear fruit. In the end they return to the earth. I can see this every day, every month, every year. That is truly a great gift. Although there are so many things that I lack in tending to my vegetable patch, my hands and feet are the first to feel that the earth and the sky that the lazy body struggles with give much more enlightenment than the theories I accepted with my mind when I lived in the city.”

 This book is a collection of writings Hyewon posted on Facebook and a diary she began to keep when she first laid foot in the life of a farmer. A life with nature. It was a way of life that she had dreamed of since long ago. It is full of the joy she learned and felt, as well as the overwhelming happiness she shared while tending to her small vegetable patch and befriending the valley. With this book, Hyewon hopes to share with many people the simple pleasures she enjoys in and with nature, where there is no hurry and there are no short cuts.