Naturally Inspired

This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

Dreams never die Twenty year old Ralph Potts left college and a promising career to run the family farm in Nebraska after his father’s death. Now sixty-five, alone, and near the end of his days, he sees his first love standing on the steps to the town’s general store. But she hasn’t aged a day. Seeing Jenny is a short story of the strange and inexplicable that explores how our dreams endure, even beyond time and death.