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Never could set poetry entirely aside, though. Then a recent move shook loose some pebbles and one of them started an avalanche. More…
Gam the goose has spent her whole life in the security of her barnyard. When Seabreeze Farm is put up for sale, she escapes captivity to find her way to a large pond gleaming in a patch of marshland by the sea.
Ganser is a young gander bred on a factory farm. When the truck transporting him to slaughter crashes on the highway, Gam finds him and his friend Grayling—the only survivors—and leads them back to the pond.
Learning to live as wild animals, Gam and the traumatized youngsters bond to form a family of sorts. And the community of wild birds takes them in, all helping one another to overcome cold, storms, and the occasional predator. The pond could be their sanctuary—if only people would leave it alone! Instead, over the course of two years, this vulnerable community faces a mounting assault from vandalism, pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. From all sides, people threaten their precious but vanishing world.
This novella is an invitation: allow yourself to really imagine the lives of other creatures; they have their own agendas, and their struggles are as desperate for them as ours are for us. If we were more alive to this level of tragedy, might we change how we behave toward the natural world?
Goose Pond is a microcosm: the universe in a grain of sand.
Coming soon—stay tuned.
Thus began the bizarre amalgam of abuse, neglect, and unsupervised international travel that was my personal wild ride through the sixties. A riveting first-person account, Riding the Cyclone careens like the eponymous Coney Island roller coaster from the wisecracks of a prematurely cynical kid to the gut-wrenching brutality that caused it, as my private world of capricious violence and unhinged delusion is mirrored by the Sixties' assassinations, drugs, and the sexual revolution.
