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The Stations of Still Creek |
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Barbara Scot, a high school English teacher and outdoor adventurer, was 54 when she heard the alarming news that her husband was believed to have been killed in a Himalayan avalanche. Two days later, she received word that her husband and his climbing party had emerged from the avalanche unharmed. In that short period, she writes, something odd had been set in motion inside her: a realization that life was short, that goals and desires abandoned to the needs of marriage and family and career were still important, that some things had better be done now before it was too late. Scot repaired to a cabin on the slopes of Mount Hood, Oregon, to think these matters through, and her self-reflection informs this memoir of a sojourn in the near-wilderness, a place where alder trees, cedars, and maples could take the place of an analyst's couch or a church pew. She learned much about herself, as she recounts in The Stations of Still Creek. She also learned much about the mountain world, lessons that pointed her to the way back home. That wilderness is a place for spiritual reflection and renewal is a commonplace. Barbara Scot lends specific weight to the truism with her thoughtful journey. --Gregory McNamee
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