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The Ten Thousand Things: My Mother, The Desert, And Life On The Colorado Plateau

Name: The Ten Thousand Things: My Mother, The Desert, And Life On The Colorado Plateau
Brand: Lizard Wisdom Publishing
SKU: 9798992424218
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Contributors:

Debbi Flittner, Debbi Flittner (Illustrator), Joanna Wiley (Designed by)

Publisher:

Lizard Wisdom Publishing

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships

Book Subcategory:

Memoirs, Parenting, Death, Grief, Bereavement

Book Topic:

Parent & Adult Child

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Release Date:

10/7/2025

ISBN 13:

9798992424218

Weight:

0.74 lbs

Size:

8.50 x 5.50 x 0.65 inches

Pages:

290

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Description

How do you make peace with a cold, distant mother who is slowly dying? The author was faced with this very question. Diving in to help her, she soon recalled harsh, lonely childhood memories in remote red rock country, during the West's dam-building era. There, she escaped her silent home by wandering outside-befriending lizards, plants and the native sandstone landscape.

Alongside her sisters, the author navigates the maze of her mother's needs and sees her through her final days, but then finds herself alone at a dark abyss filled with ten thousand unanswered questions.

Who was her mother? What made her so secretive and unable to connect with her daughters? What was she hiding, and why? The author's young memories hold clues that lead her back to her parent's hometown, where she spent long-ago summer weeks at her grandmother's house. There, a spry, 90-year old aunt now willingly shares old tales about both her parents. With her aunt's help, the author finally fills in-yet doesn't find-a singular meaning resolving who her mother was.

Come along on this soulful, generational journey of loss and love. Find a deeper acceptance of family, belonging, and a surprising meaning of one's own purpose, illumined by a universal Love that shines through all beings everywhere, including ancient peoples there from the beginning of it all.

About the Author
Flittner, Debbi: - Debbi Flittner is a licensed psychotherapist and former lawyer who has followed the spiritual thread of her life for thirty five years. She lives with her husband and two cats in their overgrown cottage outside the city limits of Portland, Oregon, near her daughter and grandchildren. She returns frequently to her much-loved red rock country of the Colorado Plateau, and to the Rio Grande valley. This is her first book. You can find out more about her writing, photography and travels on her website, at DebbiFlittner.com.