POETRY, SONGS, AND SHORT STORIES ALONG WITH A GENEROUS HELPING OF TERRIFIC SOURDOUGH RECIPES

Through The Wilderness offers an exciting collection of prose drawn from real life experiences that run the gamut from the inspirational to the hilarious, from canoeing to motorcycling, served up in a variety of styles of poetry, songs, and short stories. There is also a generous helping of terrific recipes with special emphasis on the use of sourdough starter. There is something here for every reader! Here you can find encouragement, hope, and yes, even love. Frozen deep in the human heart is the capacity to love. This capacity can be ignited by a seemingly innocent spark, even a whisper of an idea. This capacitance, once triggered, has been the cause of the rise and fall of kings and kingdoms. It has moved paupers and princes to great deeds, and altered histories and discovered worlds. In its fullest expression, it will even save your soul.

Raised on the Great Plains of South Dakota and educated at Northern State University, L. C. LaVake and his work, have been shaped by rubbing elbows with a hard working people that manage more from life than just eking out a living. A man of deep faith, this author, craftsman, musician, and poet, has found subjects all around him that help him to see and to express the true color of the human experience.