This past weekend I was able to take a retreat into the nature of Cape Cod, and in doing so, was reminded of Henry Beston and The Outermost House. When Henry was 38 years old he headed for a 2-week vacation in a small cottage he had built 2 miles south of the Coast Guard Station in Eastham, MA. Anyone who has spent time on the Cape in the fall can relate to the fact that after the two weeks were over, “the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed [him] and held [him] that [he] could not go.”