The Stations of Still Creek by Barbara J. ScotMy rating: 3.75 of 5 stars
I've had this book a long time, been meaning to read it right away for a long while, finally I did and now slightly disappointed. The writing style was okay, with some good descriptive scenes of nature.
The book was about Scot's time in living apart from her husband in a cabin in the Mount Hood National Forest. They owned this cabin for years, and she moved in one day to figure things out: her marriage, her writing, and contemplate death. Also, to heal physically as she had problems with her back and eye. Scot was a teacher and quit several times but kept going back as they needed money. It was her husband’s time to quit work for a while, instead she quit work again and went to the forest. They really don’t talk about important things.
What bothered me the most is how she approached nature. It was there for her, for personal use. When she described how she developed these stations, these places in the forest for her to stop and just sit, they were highlighted on how she fit in there. She tended to them, she created them and the paths by cutting out a lot, it is not nature as it is, but human involved. At least she would stop and just look and be.
Scot says that her goal after being healed was using her privileged time in the Mount Hood Forest to be an example of how nature can heal psychologically when you stop and just not do anything, not-doing.
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