Touching Earth, Touching Sky
Book Details
Author(s)Trudi Carleton Peek
PublisherBlue Raven Press
ISBN / ASINB003B654QU
ISBN-13978B003B654Q4
Sales Rank1,800,700
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Touching Earth, Touching Sky is a journey into the many layers of a strong, thirty-eight-year-old Montana woman’s life, revealing her secret thoughts and intimate struggles, her loves and her regrets, all set among the trappings of her everyday life.
Meg Halverson’s character and ideals were shaped by her down-to-earth life on her parents’ Central Montana wheat-farm. But now, after eighteen years as the wife of a banker & land-developer, in a Western Montana university town, she is lonely and dissatisfied. She was brought up to believe that marriage would give her companionship and love, but her husband exploits her natural talents for his success while neglecting her emotionally. Only her children bring her happiness.
When a tragedy occurs in the family, she finds solace on a beautiful, pristine mountainside. Later, when she hears that that mountainside is in the sights of a land developer—who will destroy the natural beauty of the place, all in the name of progress—she understands her emotional link to it.
The story of Meg Halverson and that piece of land has all the makings of an allegory. Her love for the land is a quiet message, but it is always there. The comfort and healing she and her family gain from their wilderness—Touching Earth and Touching Sky—delivers the message that unsullied land is essential for the human spirit; and that by fighting for Mother Nature’s gifts there is hope for the future.
Meg Halverson’s character and ideals were shaped by her down-to-earth life on her parents’ Central Montana wheat-farm. But now, after eighteen years as the wife of a banker & land-developer, in a Western Montana university town, she is lonely and dissatisfied. She was brought up to believe that marriage would give her companionship and love, but her husband exploits her natural talents for his success while neglecting her emotionally. Only her children bring her happiness.
When a tragedy occurs in the family, she finds solace on a beautiful, pristine mountainside. Later, when she hears that that mountainside is in the sights of a land developer—who will destroy the natural beauty of the place, all in the name of progress—she understands her emotional link to it.
The story of Meg Halverson and that piece of land has all the makings of an allegory. Her love for the land is a quiet message, but it is always there. The comfort and healing she and her family gain from their wilderness—Touching Earth and Touching Sky—delivers the message that unsullied land is essential for the human spirit; and that by fighting for Mother Nature’s gifts there is hope for the future.
