CREEKSONG
The true tale of a journey to the depths of a woman's soul and the heart of the Earth, by Wendy Sarkissian
"I AWAKEN WITH A JOLT. PANIC. MY BODY IS SHAKING. I'M DESPERATE TO RUN. RIGHT NOW! RUN AWAY!"
When Wendy, a fifty-year-old urban planner, finds herself driven to personal and professional despair by society's blindness to approaching ecological disasters, she flees to an Australian rainforest for a solitary year as part of her environmental ethics PhD, with the aim of educating planners about why ecological awareness matters. Little did she realise how her year of learning from the forest would change her life and the lives of those around her.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CREEKSONG
Creeksong is remarkable. Spun from the life of a leading feminist, planner, and eco-activist, this book is charming, wise, and surprising. Best of all, it is life-affirming as it helps us face dark clouds ahead.
Aidan Davison
Associate Professor of human geography and environmental studies, University of Tasmania
Creeksong is a courageous and moving tribute to life, death, healing, and the natural world. It is, at heart, an initiatory journey of a woman, weaving a tale that spans decades and continents, and captures the innocence and hopefulness of a child, the passion of a woman, and the wise humility of an elder.
Yollana Shore
"Awakening Leadership", Australia
Moving seamlessly between a suspenseful narrative and scientific facts, Creeksong shows us the real costs of climate change. Sarkissian also demonstrates the courage it takes to love deeply and to work with urgency to heal mother earth.
Louise Nayer
Author, "Burned", An Oprah Great Read
FROM CREEKSONG
"From an exhausted place inside me, a disembodied voice confesses with a modicum of bitterness:
I've always been responsible. I can't be angry. Can't feel it, can't express it, not even against [my father], though he almost ruined my life with his drinking and irresponsibility. Or my mother, who acted like she wanted to destroy me: a spider trapping me in her web. Or my ex-husband - the philandering professor - and his adoring student lover (now his wife). My childlessness, my disappointments, my lost opportunities. So much anger. Buried anger. Can't touch the anger.
I feel like lead. Trapped. Numb with anger. My body will never leave this armchair. And inside, I have a little conversation I don't share. I know there's an angry goddess inside me, tricking me, driving me crazy with her rage."
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HEAR FROM WENDY
At the age of eighty-one, most people are retreating from life, into safe, socially acceptable roles as grandparents, or fading away into the background, but Wendy is definitely not "most people"!
Listen to Wendy Sarkissian, PhD, RPIA (Life Fellow), talk about defying convention, our relationship with the earth, and why it's vital that the people of the world take action now.
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If you're ready to follow Wendy on her journey of exploration, you can order Creeksong now.
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