2020 marks thirty years since Redwood Summer, a series of direct actions to protect the Redwood trees of Northern California, the creatures that lived in the habitat, and and the people that make their living on the north coast and in the Sierra Nevadas. I participated in a few of Read more
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A number of books have been written about the Rainbow Gathering either directly or indirectly. The most recent (yes even newer than my book, Falling From The Moon) is The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia. Not sure I’m fond of the title because Read more
Last weekend, I attended the Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association (PGIAA) annual reunion at the amazing Ladera Lane Campus, which if you did not know is an old Jesuit monastery in the hills of Montecito/Santa Barbara/Caprinteria in California. The grounds are filled with old growth oak trees, altars to deities Read more
I completed my doctorate at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology while working full time and caring for a disabled parent who required 24-hour assistance. Needless to say it was hard and I was tired. My dissertation looked at how using mythic stories and journal writing enhanced Read more
Falling From the Moon is the most authentic counterculture novel since Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia. Her story of two women with different quests colliding at a counterculture gathering explores today’s alternative values in a setting that has never before been written about in such Read more
A search for a lost parent; a journey through a world that is close to many of us but seen by few; a bonding of women through the difficult circumstances of life. All of it moving along to the beat of a thousand drums offered up into the night sky. Read more
Karin Zirk’s new first novel, Falling From the Moon, kept me engaged from first to last page. She poetically explores two characters, Lauren and Sapphire, when they both attend a Gathering in Plumas National Forest in California, a mini-Woodstock, for two weeks. There both wrestle with their own dark night Read more
I fell in love with FALLING FROM THE MOON. Karin Zirk’s novel has everything I want in a good read: compelling characters, an exotic setting, a story that keeps me turning pages and writing that bids me linger to savor the language. Set against the Gathering for Peace and Healing Read more