Courtney Sells-Cunningham's Reviews > Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

I first fell in love with creative non-fiction in college during a creative class. Since then I have sought out essays like this one during times of great transition, reflection, and alteration. This book held me close and prompted a lot of journaling as I begin to think about my Master's Thesis as well as a dear friend's upcoming ordination. There's a lot of theological meat here, as well. I found her reflections on the natural to have qualities of the original Christian mystics. Her Celtic roots also gave her theology a bit of witchiness-- which I have grown fond of recently.

"Everything I feel about comfort starts to rattle. He tells me, quietly, "I want to live like an animal, close to the earth, self-sufficient, doing as little harm as possible." And ten minutes later: "And I want to live like Christ, close to God, detached, open to the unknown."(46) "