Quiet People in a Noisy World
By jon Remmerde
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In 72 short essays, Quiet People in a Noisy World chronicles our family's adventures in rural living as caretakers of a hay and cattle ranch in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon, then as caretakers of the water inlets and the watershed for the city of Bend, Oregon, then as caretakers of a Girl Scout ranch in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
We observed wildlife in natural habitat and gardened in adverse climates. We lived part of the time without electricity or plumbing, saw the changes of seasons in mountain forests and meadows, and strove toward values higher than merely material values. It was a fulfilling and enjoyable existence for all four of us, Laura and Jon, and our daughters, Juniper and Amanda. Quiet People in a Noisy World shows that there still is rewarding existence outside of cities and outside the madly material consumer culture.
Fifty-four of the seventy-two essays included in Quiet People in a Noisy World have been published in Back Home, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Doula, Home Educator's Family Times, Men's Fitness, Northwest, Summit, and The Sun, a magazine of ideas.
jon Remmerde
I took care of a hay and cattle ranch in northeastern Oregon, then the water inlets for the city of Bend, Oregon, on Tumalo Mountain, then a Girl Scout ranch in the Rocky Mountains near Denver and then another Girl Scout ranch in the Rocky Mountains near Fort Collins, Colorado. We, Laura, my wife, and I and our daughters, Juniper and Amanda lived on the places we took care of. My family participated in the caretaking and in the adventures of living in the mountains, nearly outside the consumer culture. I've written most of my adult life. I've published essays, short fiction, and poetry in The Crab Creek Review, Back Home, Bellowing Ark, Bugle, The Christian Science Monitor, The Doula, The Fiddlehead, Home Educator's Family Times, Home Schooling, Men's Fitness, Northwest, Summit, The Sun, a Magazine of Ideas, Yoga International, The Wolf Head Quarterly, Zyzzyva, and other magazines and newspapers. I've published books of fiction, and books of autobiographical non fiction. I've created songs along the way Many of my essays are about wildlife we saw and interacted with, about our close family that came from living and working in undeveloped areas, about the education within our family, about the perspectives that come from living close to the land with nature and wildlife close around us. I've kept my songs for myself and for family and friends, but recently, I decided to learn guitar, singing, and all the computer-related procedures well enough to record my songs and make them available to interested listeners. I'm involved in that process now, learning, practicing, recording and distributing my songs. I will eventually record audio readings of some of my written work, because audio readings, along with my songs, have received good responses on my website. I still write essays, poems and stories, and I keep my website http://www.oregonauthor.com as up-to-date and relevant as I can in an attempt to make my some of my work available to readers and listeners for free and in an attempt to sell some of it.
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