By Gail Picco, December 16, 2021 Resilient: The Portraiture of Wayne Simpson, foreword by David Brosha, Rocky Mountain Books, September 30, 2021, 280 pp., $60.00 (December 16, 2021) Wayne Simpson’s first public collection of portraiture shows us nothing less than the perfection of being human. Called Resilient, the book ostensibly features people who … [Read more...] about Wayne Simpson: Photos of the human soul
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Takaya: What a lone wolf teaches us
By Gail Picco, December 2, 2020 Takaya: Lone Wolf, Cheryl Alexander, foreword Carl Safina, Rocky Mountain Books, September 29, 2020, 192 pp., $29.70 Takaya is the Coast Salish First Nations people’s word for wolf. “Takaya’s life was very odd for a wolf,” writes Carl Safina in his forward to Takaya: Lone Wolf. “Wolves are very social. They usually live in … [Read more...] about Takaya: What a lone wolf teaches us
Taking a Break: For people who’ve spent their careers trying to ‘mend the world’
by Maryann Kerr (June 2, 2020) Taking a Break from Saving the World, A Conservation Activist’s Journey from Burnout to Balance, Stephen Legault, Rocky Mountain Books, May 5, 2020, Paperback, 168 pp., $19.80 I was not looking forward to reading Stephen Legault’s Taking a Break from Saving the World, A Conservation Activist’s Journey from Burnout to Balance. … [Read more...] about Taking a Break: For people who’ve spent their careers trying to ‘mend the world’