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    Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope
    Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope
    Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope
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    Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope

    Written by Dr. Rosy Daniel

    Narrated by Dr. Rosy Daniel

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    An intimate and uplifting book about finding renewal and hope through grief and loss. "It was a terrible life; it was an enchanted life; it was a blessed life. And, of course, one day it ended." -Sharon Butala In the tradition of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End, and Atul Gawande's Being Mortal comes a revelatory new book from one of our beloved writers. When Sharon Butala's husband, Peter, died unexpectedly, she found herself with no place to call home. Torn by grief and loss, she fled the ranchlands of southwest Saskatchewan and moved to the city, leaving almost everything behind. A lifetime of possessions was reduced to a few boxes of books, clothes, and keepsakes. But a lifetime of experience went with her, and a limitless well of memory-of personal failures, of a marriage that everybody said would not last but did, of the unbreakable bonds of family. Reinventing herself in an urban landscape was painful, and facing her new life as a widow tested her very being. Yet out of this hard-won new existence comes an astonishingly frank, compassionate and moving memoir that offers not only solace and hope but inspiration to those who endure profound loss. Often called one of this country's true visionaries, Sharon Butala shares her insights into the grieving process and reveals the small triumphs and funny moments that kept her going. Where I Live Now is profound in its understanding of the many homes women must build for themselves in a lifetime.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 10, 2019
    ISBN9781980056171
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    Dr. Rosy Daniel

    Dr Rosy Daniel is an internationally renowned holistic cancer consultant and the author of several books on the subject. Between 1985 and 1999 she was Medical Director of the Bristol Cancer Help Centre, and now teaches and broadcasts nationally and internationally on the holistic treatment and prevention of cancer, including cancer nutrition. She now works freelance as a Holistic Cancer Consultant in the Oncology Department of the Harley Street Clinic, London.

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      I read Sharon Butala's best selling book The Perfection of the Morning some time in the 1990s and it has stuck with me ever since. Her story of leaving a life as an academic in Saskatoon and moving to a remote corner of Saskatchewan when she married in her mid 30s struck a chord with me. I also made a pretty significant life change in middle age so I felt a kinship. However it was her descriptions of the land and the hard but rewarding life as a rancher that really were memorable. In this book she picks up the story of her life as she went through another change, that of becoming a widow and moving off the land.Peter and Sharon Butala did not have any children although Sharon had a son with her previous husband. Since there were no offspring to take over the ranch it was a conundrum how to manage the land when they were no longer able to do so. They came up with a novel solution. The Nature Conservancy took over the ranch land that was mostly native prairie and it now is the home of a herd of plains bison. The land also supports wildlife, many of whom are endangered. So when Peter died there was not as much land to manage but Sharon knew that she would have to leave and move somewhere else. She chose to move to Calgary where her son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren lived. Even in the midst of a big city she managed to find natural surroundings to walk, allowing her to continue her connection to nature. She feels that connection is vital to her well-being and also to her writing. As people become increasingly disconnected from the rural life it is instructive to learn how to maintain a connection to nature.As always, Sharon's writing is beautiful. However, you need to also spend some time gazing at this book cover. It is truly a work of art.