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Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: A Memoir
By: Jean RikhoffeBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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Author Jean Rikhoff's life often reads as if it were fiction instead of an actual catalog of facts. She's had no interest in settling down into what would be described as a normal life. In this memoir, she recaps her life's out-of-the ordinary adventures against the backdrop of water, earth, fire, and air.
Earth, Air, Fire, and Water is Rickhoff's account of growing up in the 1950s. She tells about trying many roles, such as writer, wife, mother, professor, friend, with her real role in life always seeming to evade her. Her adventures include several years spent in Europe and numerous visits to Africa and India as well as remote locations such as Cambodia and the Easter Islands. Among her many experiences are a doomed love affair with a Spanish count, an extraordinary encounter with a Masai chieftain in Kenya, and an intense and humorous friendship with the famous American sculptor David Smith.
With anecdotes and photographs, this memoir shows that through all of Rikhoff's many exploits, she is searching for who she is-not an appendage to someone else, but as a woman who wants to carve out a life that is uniquely her own.
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| Title of eBook: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: A Memoir | |
| Release Date: 08-12-2011 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: A Memoir
Chapter One
WATER
The ocean is where the first speck of life emerged, some 3.8 billion years ago. The speck evolved into algae capable of photosynthesis, resulting in the first supply of oxygen. This oxygen, interacting with ultraviolet rays from the sun, encased the earth in a protective vale called the ozone layer
Then, some 420 million years ago, life took its first step out of the water, and fed itself from the depths of the ocean with the help of oxygen and the ozone layer.
Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water (New York: Simon & Schuster Atria Books, 2001), 59.
I remember someone grabbing me under water and hauling me up by the hair, but my father claims I came up on my own and that I splashed a few strokes toward him—he had swan dived directly after me from the ledge of the pool. From that time on, anything that had to do with large amounts of water was something I looked upon with suspicion. I grew up in Indiana, a landlocked state, so all I had to fear were lakes and large rivers, not the true terrors of dark oceans and black seas.
I had a hard time growing up. The only thing that seemed to give me respite from the violent world around me, which my father controlled, was finding a place to hide and then pulling out a book and reading. I lived in books. I thought the people who wrote them were gods. They could create and control whole worlds, and the thing I wanted most to be was one of them. From the time I was eight, I wanted to be a writer.
This is ironic, because I have dyslexia, a term not widely use
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