?This volume is a spiritual cartography, a deep map of aching, of longing. Cook?s essays chart our small human awareness as one part of geologic time, taking in spiritual, scientific, and metaphysical ways of knowing. She draws from archives and from culture-bearers. Her finely crafted essays become forms of reconciliation storytelling. Cook asserts that a shared future requires everyone to enter into right relationships with divisive histories, and then to pitch in to help carry the difficult past (and present).? ?Peggy Shumaker, author of Cairn and former poet laureate of Alaska[CC1] [CC1]I combined these two blurbs. What do you think? ?This volume is a spiritual cartography, a deep map of aching, of longing. Cook?s essays chart our small human awareness as one part of geologic time, taking in spiritual, scientific, and metaphysical ways of knowing, from archives and from culture-bearers from many largely oral traditions.

? ?Peggy Shumaker, author of Cairn and former poet laureate of Alaska ?These well-crafted essays become forms of reconciliation storytelling. Cook asserts that a shared future requires everyone to enter into right relationships with divisive histories, to pitch in to help carry the difficult past (and present).? ?Peggy Shumaker, author of Cairn and former poet laureate of Alaska.