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A memoir of dramatic parallel stories of young lovers coming of age in the early 1970s and the same couple's struggle to survive a major medical crisis forty years later. In alternating chapters, the author recalls their struggle to find a purposeful life as part of the 60s generation and contrasts it with the same challenges in the later stages of life. Whether they are young adventurers lost in the wilds of the Sierra Madre or senior lovers trying to communicate through the barrier of an extended illness, the common theme of life as a journey towards a higher wakefulness provides the reader with exciting adventures as well as profound insights.…mehr

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A memoir of dramatic parallel stories of young lovers coming of age in the early 1970s and the same couple's struggle to survive a major medical crisis forty years later. In alternating chapters, the author recalls their struggle to find a purposeful life as part of the 60s generation and contrasts it with the same challenges in the later stages of life. Whether they are young adventurers lost in the wilds of the Sierra Madre or senior lovers trying to communicate through the barrier of an extended illness, the common theme of life as a journey towards a higher wakefulness provides the reader with exciting adventures as well as profound insights.
Autorenporträt
Frank Head was born in Houston, Texas in 1947. He attended Vanderbilt University and then graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969. He worked in a great variety of occupations, from itinerant fruit picker to Director of Arkansas Catholic Charities Immigration Services from which he retired in 2019.He married Phyllis Petrella Head in 1973. From then until 1982, they lived in various locations, including central Mexico, Vermont, Austin and Houston, Texas. Since 1982, they have lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas with their six children and six grandchildren. Since 2019, Frank and Phyllis have lived on their fifty acres of Ozark wilderness bordering the Little Buffalo River.