the wilderness of childhood

Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policeman's Union, is one of my favourite writers.  He could write a phonebook and I would probably be riveted.  So imagine my delight when I stumbled across this moving article of his, The Wilderness of Childhood, about one of my favourite subjects - children and nature.  It's worth checking out.