Little Dipper

About the Book

I would like to pose a series of questions to those of you who might read this book. Imagine what it might be like to go – alone – to a different country, stay in a rustic one-room cabin in the woods near the sea, and become disengaged from the phone, e-mail, the Internet, and even the TV – and to do this for an extended period of time. What might you do? What might happen to you? This is the story of such an experience.

I went north to Canada in an open-hearted spirit of seeking. I carried with me a meditation practice, a spiritual mind-set, the knowledge of sixty-some years of living – and little else. I desired to live a basically simple and simply basic life for several weeks during three separate seasons.

For the first time in my life, I learned how it feels and what it means to stop. Little Dipper is a memoir of that experience and of some of the surprises that occurred when I let go – into the present moment.

About the Author

A Volunteer Naturalist for the Wellfleet Bay Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary and a semi-retired Psychologist, Dr. Denessen lives on Cape Cod. She has traveled extensively by automobile throughout the United States and Maritime Canada with her young adult grandchildren, lodging in a tent and cooking on a camp stove. She particularly enjoys spending time with her family, reading, hiking and playing her Native American flute. Dr. Denessen is the author of Little Dipper: Roots of Healing, Tides of Change (Dreamcatcher Publishing, 2007; Xlibris, 2010), a memoir of her experience in her cabin in the woods of coastal Canada. She is co-author, with her grandson Derrick Soares, of Luminous on the Threshold: Hope for the Bereaved and Help for Those Who Would Stand by Them (Xlibris, 2007), written subsequent to the death of her granddaughter, Derrick’s sister.