Apprentice to a Mountain

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>lyrical hybrid manuscript written during the global pandemic. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book is a place-based narrative set in rural Vermont </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>offering a poetic picture of a woman painting a mountain and becoming a mountain in mid-life through the process of learning to make her own natural paint pigments during a pandemic and growing climate crisis. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It asks the question how can we become intimate with our bittersweet and temporal existence? Seventeen works of original art made with hand-crafted inks illustrate journal entries short essays and poetry of rural life the creative process and the tender human condition inside a crisis. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For the contemplative reader and artist this book exists in the space between Terry Tempest Williams' </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Women Were Birds</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Margaret Renkl's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Late Migrations</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and Brian Doyle's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>One Long River of Song</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p></p>