The Eight Mountains. by Paolo Cognetti

The Eight Mountains. by Paolo Cognetti

Uniquely describes the relationship between people of the mountains, people drawn to mountains like a moth to a flame, mountains physical the space, and Mountain communities. Or it’s a book on relationships And the different manifestations of love and relationship between

father/son , husband /wife, friend/ friend, mother/son and man/man as it ebbs and flows over time.

I always have said Minnesota could use a mountain. Just plunk it past Burnsville. Here in Florida you could throw one down in the Keys. In either case mountains anchor the landscape and provide you with the sense of direction, or perhaps orientation, or purhaps a breeze, or perhaps serenity.

I enjoyed it on several levels:

-the necessity of having an expertise in a craft,

- the necessity of having a singular focused passion

-How effective am I in communicating in my relationships

- a well told story in evocative language

“Each of us has a favorite altitude in the mountains, a Landscape that resembles us, where we feel best"

“Was a man who seem to be Marked by his own worst inner thoughts as if they were carved there in his features”

“... The sense of guilt ruined any pleasure there might have been in doing “

“it was impossible to convey what it feels like up there to those who stayed below”