Sister Raven, Brother Hare: A Journal for Those Who Honor Animal Power : Quotes [Paperback]

Mary Sojourner (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: Northland Pub; 1st edition (March 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873585372
• ISBN-13: 978-0873585378
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6.6 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,995,301 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I began writing professionally in 1985 after what seemed a century of being a divorced mom (with all its richness and 5 am - midnight days and nights). I drove West from a Great Lakes city, from wet gray and green to the huge skies and sacred mountains of Flagstaff, Arizona. I went as a promise to myself to write and fight for the earth. My writing - two novels, one short story collection, one essay collection, two memoirs, dozens of NPR commentaries and hundreds of magazine and newspaper columns - serves that vow.

Flagstaff, like so many Western mountain towns, became a playground for the rich and entitled. Too many of us could no longer afford to live there. I moved to a ragged little town in the Mojave Desert in 2008 after a series of losses that had taken me down to bone. The Mojave burned away what was left. If you have lived through any form of annihilation - deaths, addictions, wasting illness, depression, losing beloveds, feeling the threads that connect you with a place being destroyed - you know. I went north to Bend, Oregon in 2009. I missed the desert every other breath; I found my way into the basin-range sagebrush and basalt about 15 miles east of town. That huge space kept me alive - not just physically.

Loss and change are the fuel for my writing. Gratitude moves my pen. A cluster of seven Ponderosa near my old cabin near Flagstaff called me home in 2010. The cabin is gone. I live in a little first-floor apartment. My windows look out on another Ponderosa grove. I've seduced a gang of ravens and two Abert squirrels with corn chips and peanuts. This morning, the light outside my window is an alchemist's meld of the gray skies of my Eastern birthplace and the fierce blue of the Southwestern sky. There is a pinyon juniper desert to the north, east and south of my home. I count myself blessed to have been returned from a three year exile. The only forms of gratitude that are real are to write and to fight for the earth - to stop snow-making desecration on the sacred mountains here. (To learn more, go to truesnow.org.)

My blog is at marysojourner.com
My 2010 Psychology Today blog, She Bets Her Life is at http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/she-bets-her-life
My Matador blog, Dispatches from the Land of No Return is at: http://matadornetwork.com/community/marysojo/
You can keep up-dated on my readings, signings and conference appearances on my web pages at magictails.com
You can hear the NPR commentaries from 2000 on at NPR.org, Morning Edition, Mary Sojourner in the archives.