Living on the Spine: A Woman's Life in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains - Softcover

Nealson, Christina

9781565794719: Living on the Spine: A Woman's Life in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains

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ISBN 10: 1565794710 ISBN 13: 9781565794719

Publisher: Westcliffe Pub, 2001

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About the Author:

Christina Nealson was born and raised in the Iowa heartland and has lived in the Southwest for over 30 years. She is author of four books - Drive Me Wild: A Western Odyssey; New Mexico’s Sanctuaries, Retreats and Sacred Places; Living on the Spine: A Woman’s Life in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and At the Edge: Cooperative Teachings for Global Survival. The geo-gypsy and photojournalist has followed her heart and assignments to Africa, Central America and across the back roads of the U.S. West, Canada and Mexico. She teaches, lectures and blogs about the wild as she travels solo with Teak the chocolate lab and Hobo, an orange tabby who climbed onto the undercarriage of her truck in the British Columbia backwoods. Visit her at christinanealson.com and follow her Wildwords Blog at christinanealson.blogspot.com

Review:

In the tradition of Annie Dillard's reflective prose, Nealson observes the wonders of the natural world from a remote cabin in the Sangre de Cristo Montains where she has gone to write and to rediscover an identity separate from the wife, mother and therapist roles that defined her entire adult life. Nealson's views and reflections are highly colored by an inbred feminist perspective, saturated in most respects with the strong hues of New Age spirituality, and supercharged by an eroticism that adds fuel to the fire of her passionate quest for selfhood. As Nealson marvels at the breathtaking landscape, the unrestricted nature of her new existence or the fauna encountered while on her rounds of daily activities and tasks, her epiphanies will surely forge a connection with readers wishing to tune in to inner voices, seeking places for silent renewal, if only for brief interludes.

-- Booklist 9/97

Papier-Mache Press is devoted to allowing women to tell their stories and Christina Nealson's LIVING ON THE SPINE is not only a prime example but a grand, woman's spirit-affirming read....Nealson, more in touch physically, psychically and emotionally than few women ever allow themselves to be, is amazingly candid with her readers. She is earthy, practical, horny, courageous and headstrong. Mostly, though, she is courageous. She has gone to the darkness and survived. We, safe in our chairs, having consumed her account in one sitting, applaud and respond joyously to the goddess she has found within, knowing it lives within us as well. She affirms our innate knowledge that we, too, must trust and follow our instincts. -- Gay and Lesbian Times, 10/97

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