What We Hold in Our Hands: A Slow Road Reader

by Frederick Blair First

What We Hold In Our a Slow Road Reader ranges widely across the realm of relationships-with family, community, and the global order of nature-both as blessings and as obligations we hold in our hands. Like his first book, this one is, in part, a memoir of place, a "personal ecology" with more about his Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains environment and the non-human neighbors the author lives with. First also brings the reader to more perplexing how much (clothes, technology and stuff) is enough? How ought we to live so that our children's children can live within their means and within the planet's capacities to rebound? With good humor and an easy style, the author elevates the simple, ordinary, and local in a way that will bring a smile, a raised eyebrow, or nod of affirmation.

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 22, 2010

Reviews

[Kathy Fuller]

I am enjoying this book which is comprised of the author's thoughts and experiences living in rural Virginia. Each "story" is a page or two long and it is wonderful to read a selection or two before turning out my light at bedtime.