Jon Katz - Running to the Mountain: A Midlife Adventure
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Armed with the writings of Trappist monk Thomas Merton, his two faithful yellow Labradors, and the desire to confront change rather than simply react to it, Katz departs from his suburban en-clave (where, as a carpooling father, he is known as The Prince of Rides) and heads to a new world. What he finds is a community where a rodent problem prompts anyone within earshot at the hardware store to offer advice, and where the digging of a new well draws every neighbor within miles to his front lawn. Its also a place where he can be alone in na-ture, a new discovery for someone whose favorite night out is a trip to a bookstore, the pizza place, and the Sony megaplex. Habitually skeptical about religion, Katz finds in solitude a chance to consider the questions that have followed him into middle age: Can one find spirituality outside of a church, temple, or mosque? Is it possible to build a rational, moral framework for ones life amid the complexities of modern life? As Katz restores his old cabin, learns self-reliance in a lightning storm, and helps a friend prepare for fatherhood, he gathers newfound knowledge that will be a source of inspiration and achievement as he returns to the life he left behind.
It is absolutely impossible, Merton wrote, for a man to live without some kind of faith. Katz adds, It is equally impossible to change your life without some. Running to the Mountain is an unex-pected reading experience of adventure, humor, contemplation, and growth.
As notions such as solitude and spirituality have been made to seem godly, they appear to float high above our mundane and unheroic experiences. Working long hours for big companies, rushing kids around to malls and soccer games, squirreling money away for college and retirement, we want to read about conversations with God, but dont really expect to have any ourselves. . . . My hope, coming to the mountain, was that change, spirituality, and idealism arent only way Up There, but also Down Here, in the details of daily lifefamily, work, friends, dogs, dreams.
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Running to the Mountain
Katzs comic ability shines.
Los Angeles Times
If anyone can help the average guy understand and deal with a midlife crisis, its Jon Katz.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Funny and touching Following his time away, Katz comes home with a firmer grip on his soul, a stronger sense of himself as a husband and father, and gets a good book out of it to boot.
Grand Rapids Press
A masterpiece of description and insight.
American Way
A joy for run-and-hide types infused with great insight and delicious humor.
Metrowest Daily News
Running to the Mountain insightfully describes these privileged times in which, despite the unprecedented range of material choices, the longing for a rich inner life remains keen.
New Age Journal
A magical excursion of faith and hope, and a challenge for the future.
edge.net
A Good Dog
Jon Katz understands dogs as few others do, intuitively and unburdened by sentimentality. His keen insights cut to the heart of the humanpet relationshipits immense joys and painful sorrows. With wisdom and grace, he unlocks the canine soul and the complicated wonders that lie within and offers powerful insights to anyone who has ever struggled with, and loved, a troubled animal.
John Grogan, author of Marley & Me
A Good Dog is a heartbreaking love story.
USA Today
The tender, true story of how Orson, whom Katz considers a once-in-a-lifetime dog, blasted Katz out of midlife ennui in the New Jersey suburbs and into a richer world surrounded by animals.
Christian Science Monitor
Four stars Katz deftly illuminates what we love about dogs without being mawkish This book is a testimony to Katzs pragmatic devotion to turning a basically good dog into a better one.
New York Post
The Dogs of Bedlam Farm
Katzs worldof animals and humans and their combined generosity of spiritis a place youre glad youve been.
Boston Globe
An inspiring portrait of the humananimal bond, The Dogs of Bedlam Farm traverses an emotional terrain that ranges from embattled spirit to celebratory energy. And it made me a Katz fan for life.
Seattle Times
The New Work of Dogs
Engagingly bittersweet Katzs central thesis, that dogs have moved way beyond their past work, is certainly true.
New York Times Book Review
[Katz] writes with sensitivity about human relationships with animals.
Time
Humorous, compelling, and heartrending, this is a breakthrough book from one of our most talented and perceptive canine chroniclers.
AKC Gazette
A Dog Year
The adventures described in A Dog Year are the stuff of great fiction Part cautionary tale, part love story, A Dog Year reminds us that adopting a pet is a massive responsibility but one that rewards the owner with a much richer, more meaningful life.
Los Angeles Times
A Dog Year is an enjoyable and fun read for anyone who has owned an unruly (but lovable) dog with a mind of its own. It is also thoughtful and heartbreaking Grade: A.
Rocky Mountain News
This gentle book is a great reminderas if anybody needed oneof what animals can mean to people at particular times in life.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dog Days
A Dog Year
The Dogs of Bedlam Farm
The New Work of Dogs
Katz on Dogs
A Good Dog
Virtuous Reality
Media Rants
PUBLISHED BY BROADWAY BOOKS
Copyright 1999 by Jon Katz
All Rights Reserved
A hardcover edition of this book was originally published in 1999 by Villard Books. It is here reprinted by arrangement with Villard Books.
First Broadway Books trade paperback edition published 2000.
Published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.broadwaybooks.com
BROADWAY BOOKS and its logo, a letter B bisected on the diagonal, are trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Katz, Jon.
Running to the mountain : a midlife adventure / Jon Katz.1st Broadway Books trade paperback ed.
p. cm.
1. Katz, JonReligion. 2. Novelists, American20th centuryBiography. 3. Middle aged menUnited StatesBiography. 4. Merton, Thomas, 19151968Influence. 5. JournalistsUnited StatesBiography. 6. Midlife crisisReligious aspects. 7. Mountain lifeUnited States. 8. Solitude. I. Title.
PS3561.A7558 Z47 2000
813.54dc21 99-057827
eISBN: 978-0-307-82269-7
v3.1
This book is for Jeff, Michele,
Milo, Georgia, and Lulu
The madman runs to the East
and his keeper runs to the East;
both are running to the East.
Their purposes differ.
Z EN P ROVERB
T HE M ORE T HINGS C HANGE
Struggle in my heart all week. My own moral conflict never ceases. Knowing I cannot and must not simply submit to the standards imposed on me, and merely conform as they would like. This I am convinced is wrongbut the pressure never ceases.
T HOMAS M ERTON ,
T URNING T OWARD THE W ORLD
W HEN IT COMES to change, Im not a detached observer; Im a partisan.
It can happen: human beings can look inward, face the realities of their existences, andsometimesalter, enrich, or transform the circumstances under which they live.
They can dream, andsometimesthey can pursue and realize their visions.
Few of us can have much influence on the changes in the world beyond our own experiences, the greater physical, economic, or international upheavals. But dealing with the other kind of change, the personal variety, is a nearly universal human drama and preoccupationand sometimes the stuff of real adventure.
I REMEMBER ALMOST the very moment that the notion of change penetrated my consciousness.
It was a midwinter day in 1959. I was eleven years old, and as happened two or three times a week, I was running for my life through a vast cemetery near North Main Street in Providence, Rhode Island. A pack of fleet-footed and unfriendly kids was hot on my heels. I was gasping, winded, and frightened.
In that less sensitive era, being harassed and thumped by bullies was not considered abuse or even especially dramatic; it was simply the dues paid by any awkward, brooding nerd: a social poll tax, as much a part of life as vegetables or homework.
In self-protection, Id developed alternate routes home from school: through the cemetery or via a circuitous passage through the backyards and side streets of the East Side. The cemetery provided better protection, with its thousands of tombstones and vaults to hide behind. I knew by heartstill knowmany of the French-Canadian names engraved there, depending on the size and complexity of their arrangements for eternity.
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