Who I am.

I write about the landscape of grief, nature, and the wisdom of fools. The author of four books, my essays, poems, and reviews have been published in over 50 journals, including in the Huffington Post and Colorado Review. I’ve won the River Teeth Nonfiction Book Award, the Chautauqua and Literal Latte’s essay prizes, and my work has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and named a notable by Best American Essays. My account of hiking in Yosemite to deal with my wife’s death, Mountains of Light, was published by the University of Nebraska Press. http://www.markliebenow.com.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Where Is She Now?


Journal entry 17
The options for where Evelyn is now seem to be heaven or hell, according to the traditional Christian schematics, with purgatory thrown in by the Catholics as a temporary transit station if needed.  
Even though the notion that heaven physically exists in the clouds was dispelled when we started flying planes through them, the notion that there is a place called “heaven” still prevails in western civilization.  
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