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SUMMARY:Brian Laidlaw
DESCRIPTION:Writer and musician Brian Laidlaw presents Erratica: On Climb
 ing\, Language\, and Touching Stone. Part adventure narrative\, part phi
 losophical inquiry\, and part love letter to climbing and natural spaces
 \, Erratica is a radiant exploration of what happens when a human body m
 eets the earth with full attention. Registration is not required\, but h
 elps us anticipate audience size. If you'd like to RSVP\, please do so h
 ere! "Erratica maps deeper meaning onto the rocks we climb with lyric re
 flections\, philosophical explorations\, and campfire-caliber storytelli
 ng that kept me reading late into the night."—Maya Silver\, editor-in-ch
 ief of Climbing Magazine Part adventure narrative\, part philosophical i
 nquiry\, and part love letter to climbing and natural spaces\, Erratica 
 is a radiant exploration of what happens when a human body meets the ear
 th with full attention. After Brian Laidlaw climbed El Capitan\, Yosemit
 e’s iconic stone monolith\, he found himself facing a repeated question:
  “So\, what was it like up there?” It isn’t enough\, he knows\, to just 
 to describe the sensation of the rock beneath his hands and feet—a climb
  is so much more than physical movement. This seemingly simple question 
 initiates Brian’s poetic quest for the perfect metaphor\, traveling from
  the erratics of his youth in California to the towers of his current ho
 me in Moab\, Utah. He traces lines up moon-washed faces in Indian Creek 
 and edits his body language under boulders in Joe’s Valley. He lives par
 allel lives and dies parallel deaths on free solos in Colorado\, and eve
 ntually\, back in his childhood stomping grounds in the Sierra Nevada\, 
 he writes and revises routes of his own. Along the way\, he beckons us i
 nto a community bound as much by narrative as by rope. They exchange gea
 r\, chalk\, and advice as they test each foothold and fissure. Kindred s
 trangers knit into traveling bands of belayers\, swapping snacks and cau
 tionary tales. Here\, any passing climber holds the ability to shift “sp
 ontaneously into the best coach I’ve ever known.” Exhilarating and lyric
 al\, approachable yet profound\, Erratica invites us to share a rope wit
 h this community of climbers\, to measure our humanity against the expan
 se of stone. Brian Laidlaw is an author of the two collections of poetry
 \, The Mirrormaker and The Stuntman. A songwriter and musician\, he has 
 released several albums\, most recently This Aster. He writes for outdoo
 r magazines including Outside\, Climbing\, Alpinist\, and Orion. Based o
 ut of Moab\, Utah\, he moonlights—often by literal moonlight—as a rock c
 limber.\n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brian-laidlaw-erratica-
 tickets-2000538955870\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/148d270c-f472
 -486a-857e-019023c945ff
LOCATION:Comstock's Bindery & Bookshop\, WA
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/148d270c-f472-486a-857e-019023c945f
 f
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