Chapter Three
Remaking His Life
Daniel’s 18th century Georgetown home was built shortly after the Revolutionary War. The brick exterior was as solid as the men who inspired its times and looked much the same as it had for over two-hundred years. The interior, however, had been renovated in recent years several times, and when Daniel picked it out from a number of similar Colonial Houses, he did so because of the high ceilings and the solid oak floors and most particularly the white walls, the white molding and the white trim, the white around the fireplaces, the endless white in every nook and cranny. The vivid clarity of color reminded him of the desert, clean and warm—or cold—depending on the sun and the temperature of the day.
There was a center hallway that included the stairs to th
