Trials & Tributaries - Notes from a Sacred River

In the springtime of 2012, the author completed a traverse of the entire Buffalo River located in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. By chance, the hiking and canoe trip occurred during an extended dry weather season almost like none other. In the following years, he melded the account of that trip with those many stories he knew from the sometimes eccentric, but always interesting residents of the area. The parched conditions of that spring, and the hardships it caused as he moved downriver, became a metaphor for his own personal life struggles and his spiritual and religious transformation. All rivers are sacred, but this book testifies to the power of a particular wild river, and the people who revere it, to offer understanding and solace when facing life's personal challenges and mysteries.