by Alexis Rykken (Author)
"The Place Where Wildness Dreams" enters Earth's dream, offers a new sensibility of who we are as part of an integral community, and opens our minds to the consciousness of the natural world. All the world is here - from Bear to Rabbit, from Jaguar to Pica, from Mountain to Valley. The beings of the desert, the prairie, the forests and skies all reside with us, in a place that is both "out there" and within. The distant is brought near. And that which is too close to see is made visible. As a reader, you join the author's innate sense of journey...and you find in your own gypsy soul that this journey is not one you are just starting, nor will it end with the final page.
Author Biography
Alexis Rykken has lived in remote areas of the Southwest for most of her adult life, captivated by wild lands, nourished by the mystery and grit of untamed country. She holds a master of education degree and works as a writer, ecologist, and educator. Alex designed and implemented "Mapping the R?," an interdisciplinary field study of the R? Grande Watershed, and produced a DVD featuring the R? Grande. She also partnered with a San Antonio Elementary School fifth-grade class to publish a field guide featuring the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in southern New Mexico and has worked as a volunteer with Mission: Wolf. Thinking Wilderness selected Alex as a "featured wilderness thinker" in 2014. Of her love affair with wilderness, Alex writes, "It is here I feel connected - hand, foot, and heart - to my inner spirit, to Earth's dream, to my own dream for Earth."