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Member Announcements
Posted in the order they were received. Send email to the Netkeeper if you have an announcement for this page. Only current members of the Wilderness Guides Council may announce events or programs on our site. You may also want to post your announcement on our YahooGroup site for members: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/guidescouncil/
From The School of Lost Borders (received 2/1/08)
WGC Member Larry Hobbs receives honorary recognition
We are proud to announce that the School's own Larry Hobbes has been chosen as this year's recipient of the Horace Mann award, presented by Antioch University. This award is presented annually to honor the recipient's 'victory for humanity'.
Larry's "Victory for Humanity" comes from his work in researching and educating students and adult learners about our natural world and the nature of our relationship with it. In more than 30 years, Larry has created and participated in innovative wildlife research projects, authored journal articles helping define a sustainable place for humans on the planet, developed and executed innovative teaching programs and served as a lecturer and guide with university, museum and commercial eco-tourism organizations educating more than 15,000 adult learners . Larry is also a licensed mental health counselor, licensed U.S. Coast Guard Captain and founder of the 4H Rite of Passage Program which offers traditional initiation rites to the 93,000 youth in 4H youth development clubs in Washington State.
Larry is attending the WGC Gathering, Feb 19-23, 2008.
From Hannah Maris (received 3/7/07)
Audio CD Release from WGC member... Hannah Maris
U.S. Out of North America
Humor, heartache, anger, and awe blend with rich vocals, percussion, strings, and piano to create powerful songs of protest and renewal.
I am a Registered Maine Guide and I lead backcountry trips and vision quests. This work is nothing short of magical and feeds me like nothing else can. When the whole world looks like it’s going to hell in a handbasket, the non-human ones remind me of the truth. My songs reflect these deeper experiences as well as other forms of oppression/injustice we live with in the good ole US of A. I am also the mother of two young children who think it’s cool their mom has a real live CD out.
Contact: hannahmaris@aol.com. CD’s are $12 including shipping. Contact Hannah directly, please.
To listen to a few cuts, including "Hail to the Queen" and "Queer Fear" (played during the No Talent Show at the Gathering in 2007) point your browser at http://cdbaby.com/cd/hannahmaris.
From Scott Eberle (received 11/25/06)
"The Final Crossing" by Scott Eberle, the story of Steven Foster´s final days, is now available from Amazon.com as well as directly from Lost Borders Press.
The Final Crossing:Learning to Die in Order to Live
by Scott Eberle
To be blessed in death, one must learn to live.To be blessed in life, one must learn to die. —medieval prayer
Overview of The Final Crossing
“The River Styx isn’t far ahead. When it’s time for the final crossing, doc, I want you there at the helm.” Hearing these words from Steven Foster, hospice physician Scott Eberle unhesitatingly responded, “I give you my word, Steven. If it’s within my powers, I’ll be there.” In a matter of weeks, Foster would be dead, having succumbed to a genetic lung disease at the young age of 64.
Steven Foster and his wife, Meredith Little, were together for nearly thirty years, dedicating their lives to bringing meaningful wilderness rites of passage back into the modern world. Working first with youth and later with older adults, they taught many people how to mark a major life transition, helping them “to die” symbolically that they might be “reborn” into a new life. Along the way, they “touched thousands and thousands of people. Changed lives in a very big way.” Scott Eberle was one of those people.
As Eberle recounts in this new book, “For [Steven Foster], life had always been about brutal honesty and fierce attachment. No borders, no boundaries. Whatever came his way, he would open to it, grasp at it, and come to know it – with all the passion he could muster. At times, this urgency to know led him to stare at the sun for a little too long. More than once he seared his retinas, but he also saw glorious sights that many of us will never know. His approach to death would be no different . . . For him, death was . . . both the inevitable outcome and the ultimate measure of his life."
And Eberle had his own internal battle: how to be both Foster’s doctor and his student and friend? After working as an end-of-life physician for nearly two decades and as a wilderness guide for several years, Eberle had learned that “while symbolic dying and literal dying are obviously not the same, they are deeply connected.” Having explored that connection within his own life, he then went to Foster’s bedside to help this man do the same.
As an old medieval prayer says, “To be blessed in death, one must learn to live. To be blessed in life, one must learn to die.”
www.thefinalcrossing.com
thefinalcrossing@sbcglobal.net
(707) 778-3412
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