Heading for HomeDundurn, 30 sept. 2001 - 196 pagini Zahava Hanan's struggle to save her ranch in Alberta from the threat of industrial pollution makes Heading for Home a modern tale on an epic scale. For twenty years she fought for her rights in Western Canada. Heading for Home gives a very warm account of her companions throughout those years from cowhands to lovable animals; from concerned neighbours to the formality of the company man, some of whom too, eventually became firm friends. Aided at times in her struggle by her friend the author and tracker Andy Russell, Heading for Home tells the tale of how one woman's strength and willpower contributed to our heightened sense of mutual awareness. In the course of her long struggle to save everything she held most dear, Zahava Hanan stood squarely up to a "David and Goliath" confrontation with the corporations. During that time, however, she came to understand that by daring to care for our environment we inherit a common ground, goal and home. This book is also the story of that spiritual quest and challenge. And it is in this sense that Zahava Hanan has been "heading for home," and helping others get there, ever since. This is a masterpiece of its kind, and truly original, since nobody of her sensibility has written on the subject at all. There are countless travel books about wild places and countless cozy books about life in the town. This happens to be unique both in the handling of her environment and in her ability to feel and write about it. |
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... essential element of my life . What need was there to worry or enter into their frets and threats and huffiness when my whole being felt and knew that it was part of Rumsey , viewed from afar , lies in the eternal. A WALKABOUT IN THE WOODS.
... felt . There was no abrupt separation between reverence for the land and living creatures and the need to earn a living : the one flowed out of the other . Harmony and rhythm are qualities that do not normally fit into the business ...
... felt he hadn't had enough fun out of doors , so I thought , " Whatever the obstacles , to the secret spot we must go " . But we have to plough through clouds of snow so full that sometimes you can drown in them . Lots of beautiful ...
... felt I was lying on a cloud - it was billowing , it moved , it had waves in it , the white clouds in the heaven above were under me . What I knew then was that I had arrived at a still - point ; life became an understanding of rhythm ...
... Rumsey's virgin soil . Underneath the floor was a root cellar of preserved vegetables and crab apples ( Alberta's only domesticated fruit ) tucked away for cold winter moments . To enter her home felt , somehow , as if HEADING FOR HOME.
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THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE | 49 |
RUMSEY | 59 |
MEETING THE LAND | 81 |
JIM COMMODORE | 87 |
BULLS | 105 |
ANDY RUSSELL | 117 |
BREAKFAST AT RUMSEY RANCH SWAPPING STORIES | 131 |
THE ESSENCE OF RANCHING | 141 |
FRESH TRACKS | 161 |
FOOT OF MAN AND HOOF OF BEAST | 173 |
EPILOGUE | 185 |