Description
Description
In DOWN-BACK: Personal Essays and Poetic Thoughts from a Good Ole Boy, the outdoors serves as both physical and metaphorical teachers, guiding Terry Lovelette's journey of personal growth and self-discovery.
The mountains are more than scenic backdrops-they are transformative spaces where the author learns life's most profound lessons. Whether hiking the White Mountains, traversing the Teton Crest Trail, or exploring the Sierra Nevada, each mountain journey becomes a meditation on presence, humility, and spiritual awareness. Lovelette describes mountain experiences as opportunities to be fully present, where "stillness finds you" and racing thoughts dissolve into a gentle, appreciative consciousness.
Through essays that blend personal memoir with philosophical reflection, the book celebrates the wisdom found in natural settings. Mountains teach lessons about ego, resilience, and interconnectedness-revealing how wilderness experiences can strip away external distractions and invite deeper self-understanding.
Dedicated to childhood friends and mentors, DOWN-BACK is a compassionate exploration of living authentically, finding joy in life's nuanced moments, and recognizing the profound connections that bind human experience to the natural world.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Down-Back weaves the past and present in an intimate, nature-filled birdsong of poetry and prose. Like any good trail, this collection of essays and poems meanders through the heart and keeps you moving forward in wonder and amazement."
Brad Orsted - award-winning wildlife filmmaker/photographer and the author of Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild. His most recent film, "The Beast of Our Time: Grizzly Bears and Climate Change" was awarded Best Environmental Film at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
"What Terry Lovelette has written with Down-Back is not a pure memoir but something better. He offers us personal reflections in prose and poetry. Ultimately these are the valuable, ineffable things that influence our individual and collective conscience as a society. They create compass points and offer us a north star for moving forward."
Todd Wilkinson - is an award-winning American journalist and author focusing on the importance of wildlife and wild places. His work has appeared widely in publications ranging from National Geographic to the Christian Science Monitor. He is the founder of the conservation journalist site yellowstonian.org
"Down-Back is a wonderfully personal reflection about the power of the outdoors. Terry weaves a positive, nostalgic spin on his time spent hiking and in nature, reminding us that silence is a necessary part of our lives, and that the beauty of nature around us is also contained within us."
Matt Landry is the author of eleven books. Including: One Mountain - One Hundred Summits, Forward Onward Upward, and Keep Moving Forward
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