| View Larger Image | Instant Karma: The Heart and Soul of a Ski Bum | Paperbackby Wayne (Author), K. Sheldrake (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Ghost Road Press | | Edition: | 1stst Edition | | Page Count: | 188 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 15, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 272,353nd |
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Product Description
With the beauty and precision of a poet, Wayne Sheldrake examines his place in the close community of ski bums, people who give up normality to live on their own terms. Sheldrake's is a life of recklessness and restlessness, dedicated to adventure, courage, and the joy of second and third chances. He maps the hidden trails of virgin snow and conjures the rush of hucking off cornices and skiing blind in sudden snowstorms with exacting detail, all the while seeking to understand the bonds of romance, friendship, and learning to let go. In Sheldrake's universe, instant karma is what happens when we believe our grandest passion can t be separated from the everyday, and then live in accordance with that faith. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 11 reviews)
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Quick read by Jacob M N  5 Stars
June 10, 2009
An excellent read. Sheldrake uses word to paint vivid images in my head; it's almost like I was actually there (Hooper, CO) with him.
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Skiing, Healing, and Humor by Grant E (Parker, CO) 5 Stars
February 02, 2008
It's a memior of a man who skies and wrecks. Lots of wrecks. Both on and off the slopes. The skiing is how he deals with the mess of life and it is both his balm and his bane. His mother's multiple attempts at happiness, his own struggles of identity often find him wrestling it out going downhill at 70 mph, often out of bounds, never wearing a helmet.
Wayne Sheldrake's philosophy of dealing with the junk of life? "No goggles. No helmet...All I needed was a pair of skis. I didn't stop for food. I didn't stop for water. I didn't use sunscreen. (Only [expletive] wore sunscreen.) I never worried about getting hurt."
Then something changes and you realize that the book isn't really about skiing. Okay, it is about the skiing but it's MORE than just skiing. It's about healing and hope and living in the moment with people who are just jacked up as you are.
It's about the messy, funny, painful redeeming process of healing.
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What can I say.. by Josef Jurkowitsch (Laramie, WY USA) 5 Stars
January 14, 2008
Simply put: what can I say about a person who took the oppurtunities that life gave him and milked them for MORE than they were worth. It was a nostalga trip to the Rockies of MY youth as well as some of the same places/experiences!
Just because YOU were born too late to see/experience those days - read this book and see how it was done BEFORE all that great gear you have today!
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SKIING LIKE IT WAS MEANT TO BE! by Reed 5 Stars
January 10, 2008
Wayne transported me back to the ski area of my youth. Through his eyes I was right there powder skiing Alberta's Face with all of my friends. It is apparent through Wayne's book that the ski bum life is not all hot tubs and bikinis as depicted in the movies; rather it is a deeper experience for him with Vreni at his side.
The snow stopped swirling around me when I looked up from Instant Karma and out the window from my home in central Texas where I now reside. There was no snow outside of the window, so I plunged back into the words where I rejoin Wayne standing at the top of the continental divide just before he jumped off the cornice into the powder.
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Does one dare review - Karma ? by Robert Linton (Oldest city, FL USA)  4 Stars
December 24, 2007
Wayne has really captured the thoughts of most die hard skiers in this writing. But as I read the book, which I picked up - after meeting Wayne, where else; but on a ski Lift at Wolf Creek Pass ski resort, I realized that its meaing was deeper. I could see paralells into other aspects of daily lives.
Wayne is a great writer, who connects with the reader.
I am glad to have met him, and to have read Karma.
P.S. I am heading back out to Wolf Creek Pass this Holiday season, as they now have over 14 feet of snow.
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