Book Event: A Tree with My Name On It

Friday, May 2 at 6:30 Sky Lake Meditation Center will host a book event for Victress Hitchcock’s new memoir, A Tree with My Name On It: Finding a Way Home. Following a reading of excerpts from her book, Victress will engage in a conversation with artist and writer Barbara Bash about telling our stories. There will be a time for Q&A and books will be available for purchase and signing.  As the 20th century careened towards the finish line, author Victress Hitchcock moved with her husband from their familiar urban world to a 160-acre historic ranch in the Wet Mountains of Colorado. Within months, their lives unraveled, and out of the wreckage a radically new path emerged.

Guided by a rich concoction of Buddhist insight and horse sense, a deep friendship with a woman born on the ranch, and the meditation group she led at a nearby Federal prison, Victress began a journey that shattered old defenses and loosened the grip of the lifelong fears that bound her.

A Tree With My Name On It is not a handbook on healing trauma. It is a living, breathing, messy story of one woman trying her hardest to free her wounded heart and uncover her true self.

“A riveting and intimate tale of a woman’s journey in search of a home, in her body, in her spirit and in the land. I couldn’t put it down…” Tsultrim Allione, Author ––Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Sacred Feminine

“A Tree with My Name on It is a raw, courageous, and initiatory memoir for our times, a beautifully written account full of pain, liberation, compassion, and wisdom.” Fleet Maull, Author ––Radical Responsibility and Dharma in Hell, founder of Prison Dharma Network.