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The Ruin is a story about bullying, damaged lives, and the tragic consequences that too often end in suicide or even the ultimate tragedy: school shootings.
The Ruin tells the story of retiring English teacher Clifton Kelley. As Kelley cares for his class during a school lockdown, across town a boy is shooting classmates in the school cafeteria. Kelley flashes back 40 years to himself as a 14 year old boy, who after years of school-yard bullying, is driven to make the decision to aim his rifle at his bullies or seek refuge from his rage by fleeing to the wilderness.
The Ruin then becomes the story of his survival using the knowledge he has gained from his parents and the Museum at Mesa Verde National Park. For the next year he takes shelter in a cliff dwelling in the foothill canyons of Mesa Verde. There he gathers food, learns to hunt using a primitive weapon, stores food for the winter, and devises clothing to protect himself from the harsh mountain climate.
The boy connects with the spirits of the long departed Ancient Puebloans whose dwelling he finds home. Spare time in his long days of solitude become a time of introspection, communing with nature, and creativity.
Eventually he emerges to test his newfound inner strength amoung family and society.
The Bee Tree by Kenneth Fenter
is suitable for all ages.
The sequel to The Ruin begins a week after Cliff emerges from the Anasazi cliff dwelling with a sense of purpose and dignity to resume his place on the family farm. He reaches out to a neighbor, Angelina Martinez, who has befriended him in the past.
But Cliff's newfound confidence, survival instincts, spiritual concepts and personal values are tested to the limit as he struggles to keep Angelina away from a man who intends to destroy them both. The Bee Tree explores turning negative relationships into positives, young adult exploration of spiritual values, and cross-cultural interactions.
“The Bee Tree is terrific mix of promising adventure and cliff-hanging danger. Social and emotional maturation arise out of friendship and survival. You will be informed and entertained by this multi-cultural, multi-generational narrative.” Jim Henson, LCSW, author of Pee Up a Tree: A Mental Health Memoir
With an early 1970s setting in Oregon’s Umpqua River valley, this book shares the courage, wisdom, humor and folly of ordinary people through the extraordinary lens of a youthful mental health professional.
Author Jim Henson draws upon 40 years of professional experience as a clinical social worker in the process of illuminating the lives of clinic employees and the individuals and families they served.
The readers of this book will enjoy this unique opportunity to be observers inside the community, inside the clinic and inside the personal connections between client and clinician.
Think Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon or James Herriot’s Yorkshire countryside and you are almost there.
Young lovers from California make the trek to Chicago via the Trans-Canadian Highway.
Upon arrival, they encounter a wonderful and diverse landscape filled with an abundance of warm, genuine, caring and strange characters whose customs entertain and mystify. Reader beware: this is no straightforward history, more aptly described as a metaphorical journal. As seen through the eyes of graduate student and fledgling psychotherapist Jim Henson, Satisfaction Guaranteed: In Chicago will take you on a seriously humorous trip all around the town.
Masterful story telling about the exploits of ordinary people in the style of Garrison Keillor and James Herriot. Author Jane Kirkpatrick has referred to Henson's writings as "inventive, irreverent and therapeutically wise."