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"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."Â Â Â
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.  Â
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."
Read Online Deep Creek Finding Hope in the High Country Audible Audio Edition Pam Houston Audible Studios Books
"I have been reading Pam Houston's books from the first Cowboys Are My Weakness and I've loved each and every one, often reading them over and over. What is so compelling about Houston's work is that they are all unique and original from each other. There is never a feeling that she is following a 'formula' or similar path as each book takes you on different journeys. This new book is yet another fantastic book that I am truly loving. I'm deliberately reading it slowly to savor every bit and I will likely turn around and listen to the audiobook after reading it. I am blown away at how much Houston has opened up about her life, her childhood trauma and ways in which her ranch and the natural world around her have helped to heal her. There is one of the most detailed accounts of wild fires I've ever read and taught me a lot about how climate changes will be making wild fires more prevalent and more dangerous. Along with that aspect, she writes so beautifully in chronicling her encounters with wildlife and how climate change is affecting them. While her words are sobering and even sad in some instances, there is still a feeling of grace and hope that comes through. A reverence for what we still have and a desire to make it known how important and necessary to keep these wild places intact. Houston puts words and experiences together in lyrical and memorable ways. I highly recommend this book!"
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- Okay, I'll admit I haven't read this book yet, but I have ordered it and will add to this review soon once I have completed it. I simply want to say - don't NOT buy it because of Alexandra Fuller's review in the NYT. She rips it apart and incorrectly states that "water buffaloes and cheetahs don't exist in nature together" - another inaccuracy about the Africa that Fuller claims to know so well, and yet which she mischaracterizes in several of her books. (I was born and lived in South Africa, and spent two years in Zimbabwe, so I have first-hand knowledge of that period of time in those countries. She doesn't even get the date of the Civil War correct in her own memoir. Scribbling the Cat feels like a work of imagination.) I would certainly recommend Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight - it is beautifully written, seems emotionally true, and is more or less accurate about Rhodesia at that time - but her memoirs mostly contain inaccuracies far more egregious than any contained in Houston's, I am willing to guess. I find it astonishing that she can be so critical of Pam Houston under the circumstances.
- Pam Houston’s book, Deep Creek, Finding Hope in the High Country, arrived, and I started reading and couldn’t stop. Though it includes a traumatic childhood, it’s a celebration of nature and survival.
What surprised me though is that when she asked her class at UC Davis how many had spent a night sleeping in the wilderness, the answer was zero. Zero.
I wondered what is it to lose contact with the land, the earth, to not see the full passage and shades of light, day to night, night to day. Ms. Houston gives us this passage through her observations and journeys. We share and feel the ups and down, fires and cold, and the beauty of love and connection shared. I felt my muscles, both physical and spiritual, firm as I hiked and traveled with her and shared the beauty of this earth.
In 1971, Captain Edgar J. Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, was changed by seeing the earth from space. He felt the love we share, a universal love, what he called “quantum resonance with all that isâ€.
We may not be able to spend a night in the wilderness but through Pam’s book we get a taste of seeing the earth in her wholeness and we even experience a belief in ghosts. - As is her bent toward humor and emotional depth, Pam has given a achingly beautiful portrayal of the meaning of place and home as an anchor for one who spends half her life traveling to distant places. Yes, I believe this place claimed Pam when she was searching for a home. Her descriptions of the landscape, the daily rituals of caring for and being blessed by the people and natural wonder of this place make me want to go slow in the reading to make the gift of her offering last.
- I highly recommend Deep Creek. Pam Houston's latest book is a journey through a lifetime of courage and contrast. Of the fire of a father and the ice of a mother. Of hovering like a kingfisher over an exceptionally violent past, diving straight into its turbulent waters, and shaking it off and choosing to forage elsewhere. It's a book of godmothers, in the form of nannies, safe sleepovers, impossible down payments and the hundreds of narwhals. Of straddling the yawning chasm between grieving our battered Mother Earth and celebrating Her. Pam is a person who looks straight into the eyes of wolfhounds and students and storms and sees such undeniable grace she's knocked to her knees, taking us all with her. The stories in Deep Creek are motivated by generosity and fueled by gratitude; in the end, it's a book about alchemy, about using the shards of heartbreak to carve a bigger vessel to hold more love. Please do yourself a favor. Read this book and pass it on. We will all be better off.
- I have been reading Pam Houston's books from the first Cowboys Are My Weakness and I've loved each and every one, often reading them over and over. What is so compelling about Houston's work is that they are all unique and original from each other. There is never a feeling that she is following a 'formula' or similar path as each book takes you on different journeys. This new book is yet another fantastic book that I am truly loving. I'm deliberately reading it slowly to savor every bit and I will likely turn around and listen to the audiobook after reading it. I am blown away at how much Houston has opened up about her life, her childhood trauma and ways in which her ranch and the natural world around her have helped to heal her. There is one of the most detailed accounts of wild fires I've ever read and taught me a lot about how climate changes will be making wild fires more prevalent and more dangerous. Along with that aspect, she writes so beautifully in chronicling her encounters with wildlife and how climate change is affecting them. While her words are sobering and even sad in some instances, there is still a feeling of grace and hope that comes through. A reverence for what we still have and a desire to make it known how important and necessary to keep these wild places intact. Houston puts words and experiences together in lyrical and memorable ways. I highly recommend this book!
- Deep Creek is a mid-life autobiography written by a strong, resourceful, adventuresome, multi-talented woman. Pam Houston has overcome an abusive childhood, the small-minded jealousy of academics, catastrophic wildfire, and death-defying wilderness adventures arising from her own wanderlust. She has survived spectacularly well, making the most of her abilities, finding home on her Colorado ranch where she builds gratifying relationships with some admirable natives in the nearby small town of Creede and can host an over growing cast of remarkable friends. Pam Houston is a consistently effective storyteller who documents her struggles to know who she has become and where she truly belongs. She has become a forgiving, grateful, and wise person. Deep Creek is truly inspirational.
