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Cold Summers: Lost and Found in the Alaskan Wilderness
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Steve Tyler
maxwhite
, January 14, 2022
CHAINSAW PACKING POET “The journey itself is home.” The late Portland poet and writer Steve Tyler introduces his “novelized memoir” with that line by the poet Basho. The book is mostly from notes written, “…at a time in my life when I had no place left to go.” Tyler worked “seasons” on surveying crews in remote Alaska. A season was spring through fall., his stories are funny and, profane. Accounts hint at journals (he says he kept some) though not chronological, not date-stamped. “Wolves and roses this morning—neither seen. The wolves were revealed by tracks in the alluvial mud of Hess Creek: a pack of four or five, probably running , to judge by from the depth of their paw prints. The roses were hidden behind a spruce, undercut and toppled by the creek, their reflection glimpsed in dark green of a small feeder stream. Wild roses the pale pink of a faded silk slip… Swans I am always amazed when I see these stunning, seemingly delicate birds in the most remote wildernesses of Alaska, floating upon cobalt tundra ponds or still silver lakes in a fall dawn. Imagine a big middle-age man saying something he realizes is gentle or nostalgic. He follows with a dirty story proving he is not soft. Tyler was not soft. He started in Alaska at forty-one years old on crews with people in their twenties. Logging is hard physical work. Tyler did so year after year, midlife. The money was good. However, he explains, “I come to Alaska to be purified and restored.”
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Secret Garden
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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, December 02, 2016
In the 70’s in Port Townsend Washington I read this book to my daughter and her friend. They were eight or seven; I don’t remember. It was one of the best choices ever. Both girls would insist that we read it every night. Then – you guessed it – we read it again. I don’t remember how I chose “The Secret Garden.” That’s a long time ago. Recently my son, who lives in Netherlands, asked my same daughter and me to suggest a book for our niece/granddaughter. We agree. “The Secret Garden.” It is set in an aristocratic England long gone, which made me wonder if the girls would relate, so to speak. It turns out that humans, the small humans of the story, are what matters; they grabbed the little girls’ imagination. It’s a melodrama of sorts, but never underestimate melodramas. An Australian writer said, “If you didn’t cry the book wasn’t worth reading.” We all cried.
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