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Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I absolutely adored this book. It makes me want to pick up and read all her other books, as well. Her love of the earth and its animals as well as the ranch she is blessed to call home shines through in every sentence. "If you can't fall in love with the San Juan Mountains during the third week of September, you can't fall in love. The mountainsides are covered with the world's largest aspen forests, and they are changing in vast undulating swathes: yellow, golden, orange, vermillion. The sky is a headstrong break-your-heart blue, the air is so clear you can see a hundred miles on a straight horizon, and the river is cold and crisp and possibly even clearer than the air. The coyotes sing, all night sometimes, and the elk bugle in the misty dawn along the river." The writing wrings my heart: "...Fenton the canine loved and was loved all his life, and there is no condition in all our living and dying that could be more satisfying. If we could only embrace death as another aspect of life--if we would let the animals teach us how to live and how to die--we might treat each other and our animals better than we do." Love, love, love this book.



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