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    Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life's Complexities
    Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life's Complexities
    Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life's Complexities
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    Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life's Complexities

    By Eileen McDargh and Roderick Maclver

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    “Wonderfully profound …. It's as if Thoreau meets Lao Tzu on the trail and we are fortunate enough to overhear their wisdom on what the wilderness has to offer 21st century civilization.”
    — Jeff Salz, PhD, explorer, adventurer, anthropologist, and author of The Way of Adventure

    Whether you are a world-weary worker juggling the demands of a hectic life or a seeker of soul-satisfying experiences, this deceptively simple book is your key to refresh, renew, rethink, and recharge.

From an unexpectedly arduous backpacking trip, Eileen McDargh discovers truths from the experience. Deep in grime, grit, and grace-filled mornings, she finds insights for business, for relationships, for family, for life, and for the soul.

    Just as the ocean inspired Anne Morrow Lindbergh's classic, Gifts from the Sea, so too can a mountain become a lyrical metaphor for coping with life's complexities.

Whether musing on wild onions or mosquitoes, river crossings or thunderbolts, Eileen shares lessons for understanding the mundane and the magnificent, the difficult and the delightful, the ordinary and the extraordinary. Mountains become a lyrical metaphor for coping with life's complexities.

You'll be reminded of what you may already know but have likely forgotten in the tension of time constraints, work worries, and family frustrations. McDargh will jar your memory, evoke new awareness, and spur you to action.

Each two-page spread features a full-color watercolor painting illuminating these concise, graceful reflections. Gifts from the Mountain helps us pay attention to the process of life and to take joy in the journey.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
    Release dateOct 1, 2007
    ISBN9781609944308
    Gifts from the Mountain: Simple Truths for Life's Complexities
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    Eileen McDargh

    Eileen McDargh is a master facilitator, an award-winning author, and an internationally recognized keynoter and executive coach. As CEO (chief energy officer) at the Resiliency Group, she draws on practical business know-how, life experience, and years of consulting to major national and international organizations that have included global pharmaceuticals, the US Armed Forces, health-care associations, and religious institutions. In 2019, Global Gurus, a British-based provider of resources for leadership, communication, and sales training, ranked her #1 on the World’s Top 30 Communication Professionals following a global survey of 22,000 business professionals.

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      Gifts from the Mountain - Eileen McDargh

      Gifts from the Mountain

      Gifts from the Mountain

      Simple Truths for Life's Complexities

      Eileen McDargh

      Illustrations by Roderick MacIver

      Gifts from the Mountain

      Copyright © 2007 by Eileen McDargh

      Illustrations copyright © 2007 by Roderick MacIver

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      First Edition

      Hardcover print edition ISBN 978-1-57675-469-6

      PDF e-book ISBN 978-1-57675-543-3

      IDPF ISBN: 978-1-60994-430-8

      2007-1

      Book design by Whitney Campbell

      Foreword

      As a National Geographic photographer, I’ve worked for years to train my eyes and senses so I can capture moments of beauty and significance on film. What I do with a camera, Eileen has done with her words.

      This is a book of rare wisdom and relevance. Having spent much of my life in wilderness, I know the quiet, deep teachings of nature. I also know it can take time and effort to find them. How marvelous that Eileen takes us on a trek with her, sharing the lessons she has found so that we can apply them in all parts of our life. Relax—you don’t have to leave your chair.

      Photographer John Muir insisted that we must climb the mountains and get their glad tidings. Eileen hears all those tidings loud

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