02313cam a2200385 i 4500 368997931 TxAuBib 20190205120000.0 180905s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018037969 9780393241020 25.95 0393241025 25.95 eng rda TxAuBib rda Houston, Pam. Essays Selections. Deep Creek [BOOK] : finding hope in the high country / Pam Houston. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. x, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston's sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston's most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief...to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive." Provided by publisher. 20190205. Houston, Pam. Women ranchers United States Biography. Ranch life Colorado. Human ecology. Ranching Colorado. Human-animal relationships. Authors, American 20th century Biography. West (U.S) Description and travel. Colorado Description and travel. Rocky Mountains Description and travel. Biographies.