Ginny East
Author of My Million-Dollar Donkey: The Price I Paid for Wanting to Live Simply
About the Author
Award-Winning Author Ginny East has an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University, as well as a BA from Eckerd College. A nationally recognized dance teacher, she left her hectic dance-driven life to try her hand at country living. Lessons learned, Ginny is now an E-RYT-500 yoga teacher and show more Reiki master and the owner and director of Heartwood Retreat Center, a 7-acre holistic learning center in Florida with classes in yoga, writing, and sustainable living. show less
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"Ginny honestly recounts the four years she and her family gave to their complex attempt to forge a life that would lead to stronger relationships with the environment, community and, most importantly, one another."
(Publisher's note)
"When some people go through a midlife crisis, they buy themselves a Porsche.
Me? I bought a donkey" (Ginny East)
Ginny's story will elicit every emotion.
I laughed with her, cried with her and occasionally just set the book down and walked away, dismayed by the/her circumstances.
What an engrossing story and so many lessons to be learned when one tries to embrace simplicity but led via the route of complexity.
I love the little lessons of nature that she shared with her reader.
Ginny taught me more about chicks, eggs and incubation than I'd ever known.
The beauty of the garden and animals and childrens participation
was marred by Mark's continual evolution of the log home he was building for the family.
It became a million dollar quest for a life of simplicity.
The book is very rich in detail, candid and had that special combination of tragic/heartwarming moments.
Read Ginny's story and be thankful you can learn vicariously.
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