“You won’t soon read a more beautiful book, nor one so earthy, wise, delicious, and alive. This is not a book about fish or rivers or Montana or parenting. This is a book, to paraphrase another poet, plain and simple, to break open the frozen sea within.” —Rick Bass I have been waiting years to have this conversation with author, poet, and fly-fishing guide Chris Dombrowski. There is a kinship I feel with Chris’s lens on life. He is a top-shelf writer to boot. The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water comes out October 11th, 2022. I …
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Backporch Advent Outpost with Chris Dombrowski (#2)
“Ragged Anthem, a soulful book of longing that is as comic as it is reflective. These poems sing of humankind in need of something it can only seem to get from the natural world, and of how we won’t get it until we begin to understand ourselves as natural as any tree or river.” – Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition Backporch Advent Outpost with Chris Dombrowski (#2) Blessed Darkness and Blessed Light this Advent season. Here we are again, in the midst of Season Two of Contemplify, and I am sliding in another bonus episode as part of the 2nd …
Advent Outpost from the Backporch (#2)
“For some reason we like to see days pass, even though most of us claim we don’t want to reach our last one for a long time.” by Tom Hennen (“Life of a Day“) Advent Outpost from the Backporch (#2) Here we are again, inching forward in the diminishment of days dancing with the light and the darkness. This is the second Advent outpost in the series. See, last year my wife and I started an Advent neighborhood get together last year; soup, wine, bread, cheese, poetry, stories, hymns, and children bellowing. A eucharist of sorts, but more with an ancient turn to …