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EXPERIENCE TALKS 1/31 @ 8 AM PT:
GARY FERGUSON
with host TIM CARPENTER
Photo: Gary and Jane Ferguson by the Hood River, above the Arctic Circle
For 25 years, GARY FERGUSON and his wife, Jane, roamed the Rockies, working as naturalists, he as a writer, she as a teacher. But in 2005, a canoe trip on a dangerous stretch of the Kopka River in the Canadian Rockies turned deadly. Jane drowned and Ferguson turned to what he knew to recover from his heartbreak, writing The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness. The memoir chronicles his journey to spread Jane’s ashes in her five favorite wild places, all in the Rocky Mountains. The journey took several years through the wild lands of Idaho into Yellowstone National Park, and Ferguson learned lessons about grieving as he made his way from one wild haunt to another, finally coming to terms with the notion that “the grief journey unfolds at its own pace.” Tim Carpenter talks to author Gary Ferguson about the wilderness of grieving.
“The Carry Home offers a powerful glimpse into how the natural world can be a critical prompt for moving through cycles of immeasurable grief, how bereavement can turn to wonder, and how one man rediscovered himself in the process of saying goodbye.” ~ from Counterpoint Press
