<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hey Hey, My Kookie Friends!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just want to let you know about an upcoming event at Books & Co. I have the pleasure of being conversation with the Wisconsin author Tamara Dean about her book of personal essays titled, <i class="">Shelter and Storm</i>. Tamara and her husband David "lived the dream" of buying a parcel of land in the Driftless area and living as gently with the land as they could. She shares their challenges and successes with insight and tenderness. I can't wait to meet her in person and hope you can join us...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Books & Co</div><div class="">May 15 @ 6:30</div><div class="">Free but they appreciate folks registering in advance if they can: <a href="https://booksco.com/event/2025-05-15/tamara-dean-conversation-kim-suhr" class="">https://booksco.com/event/2025-05-15/tamara-dean-conversation-kim-suhr</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here's more info about the book and Tamara...</div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: Quicksand, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">About the book:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">In the midst of the environmental crises of the early twenty-first century, Tamara Dean sought a way to live lightly on the planet. Her quest drew her to a landscape unlike any other: the Driftless area of Wisconsin, a region untouched by glaciers, marked by steep hills and deeply carved valleys, capped with forests and laced with cold, spring-fed streams. There, she confronted, in ways large and small, the challenges of meeting basic needs while facing the ravages of climate change--an experience at once soul-stirring and practical that she recounts in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Shelter and Storm</em>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: Quicksand, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">Dean's boundless curiosity and gift for storytelling imbue these essays with urgency and a sense of adventure. She invites readers to share in her discoveries while hunting for water, learning that a persistent weed could be food, or burning a hayfield to recreate a prairie. Contending with the fallout of fires, floods, and tornadoes, she offers responses to natural disasters that reflect the importance of community, now and for generations to come. Whether tracking down a rare, blue-glowing firefly, engineering a beaver-friendly waterway to appease a dying neighbor, or building a house of earthen blocks, Dean unites personal experience with science and history, presenting a perspective as informative as it is compelling.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: Quicksand, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">Keenly attentive to the stakes for our planet's future--and the implications of extreme weather, shifting agricultural practices, and political divides--<em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Shelter and Storm </em>illuminates a thoughtful way forward for anyone concerned about climate change and its far-reaching consequences or for anyone searching, as Dean has, for a more sustainable way to live.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: Quicksand, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">About the author:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Tamara Dean has been camping, fishing, hiking, and gathering wild foods from an early age, led and inspired by her parents. Her essays and stories have been published in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, </em>the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Guardian, One Story, Orion, </em>and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The Progressive, </em>and she is author of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The Human-Powered Home: Choosing Muscles over Motors</em>. She teaches writing independently and through writing centers across the nation.</p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: Quicksand, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class="">Hope to see you there!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kindly,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kim</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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