Wind River Winter

by Virginia Stem Owens

Book Overview

To read the books of Virginia Stem Owens is to understand what Dylan Thomas once called ?the mystery of having been moved by words.? Her style is contemplative, ecstatic, tender ? always yearning for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573830909
• ISBN13: 9781573830904
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Regent College Publishing
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

LIfe, Death and Resurection

Virginia Stem Owens journey from September to March in the Wind Rivers is not just a story about getting to the otherside of today. It is her story of dying, not a physical death but a spiritual death of sorts that she calls all of us to do over and over in life. This is a book of letting go of our past life and living our present."I went on down the trail, maneuvering the switchbacks and trying to keep my analogies under control. For I sometimes thought I heard wings overhead myself.There is a dove in heaven, we know, that descends when the skies open, sometimes in fire. But perhaps there is also a hawk in heaven that swoops down on us with the gift of death to deliver us from our used-up past we have neither the courage nor the imagination to walk away from." (Owens 11)