Comments for Maya Ward

Comment on Reviews and Responses by Nerissa Haarhoff

Nerissa Haarhoff — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:31:59 +0000

I have just heard Clare Dunn speak and bought her book My Year without matches and so have found a link to you.
For 15 years I have walked and cycled in the bush along the trail next to the Yarra from Chelsworth Park Ivanhoe to Westerfold it has been my spiritual inspiration and muse for creativity as a visual artist. It is in My Pschye. Sadly I had to downsize and now live in a tiny flat overlooking the Yarra in Melbourne CBD. Every day I walk and sit by the billabongs in the Royal botanical Gardens drawn to reflections of sky and greenery. I am still searching for my real home and may move to the Murray as intuitively I must have river, mountain and forest to feel connected and in flow. Recently reading sinning along the Camino and the Year we seized the day both pilgrimages, I considered a walking pilgrimage along the yarra..so I will now read your book.
thankyou

Comment on Reviews and Responses by Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 06:06:08 +0000

This book so absorbed me on train trips that I didn’t even realise how far that journey had progressed at times.
I’ve been to both Herring Island/Lotus gardens in Warburton with a photography group, and loved your vivid descriptions of the entire pilgrimage.

I’ve recently walked a few closed train lines and look out for telltale signs like sleeper/pole/rail remnants, as a reminder of what once was there.

Comment on BUY BOOK OR EBOOK by maya

maya — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 08:08:46 +0000

Hi Kevin
My publisher has told me that Amazon have been difficult to work with lately and they recommend going through kobo instead. So try http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-comfort-of-water
thanks for your interest
Cheers Maya

Comment on BUY BOOK OR EBOOK by Kevin Murray

Kevin Murray — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 02:32:56 +0000

I tried to order this as a Kindle book, but it says not available. Are there other means?

Comment on Reviews and Responses by Susie Chapman

Susie Chapman — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 08:08:58 +0000

Dear Maya,

Reading this book (given to me by Kari)has been deeply inspirational for so many reasons. I’ve cried and laughed and wondered. Thank you for your poetic way of revealing things I think I knew all along. Your words have music and honesty that strips the irrelevant away and leaves you with you, the river and your companions. For the companions are so important. Alone, the pilgrimage would not be the same. I now see I’ve been on a pilgrim’s path for 20 years since leaving Williamstown and coming back to my heartland on the Sunshine Coast. Though I haven’t walked a river’s path sequentially from sea to source, my somatic learning has been over time. Telling your journey as you have done has helped me to know what deep ecology is at a level most people don’t know exists – a treasure beyond all else you have shared. Thank you Maya.
Susie

Comment on Reviews and Responses by Brendan Dwyer

Brendan Dwyer — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 03:43:10 +0000

Hi Maya,

Am living in Brunswick. Plan on making a film about the Murray. Now i have a source of inspiration! Thanks. Just finished the book and a friend tells me of meeting a guy called Ilan. And i said “he’s famous!” And in my eyes you all are. Well done!

Rgds, Brendan

Comment on Reviews and Responses by Lindy Kohut

Lindy Kohut — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:21:26 +0000

Dear Maya, Ilan, Kate and Cinnamon,

What an inspiring journey, project and life changing experience. I grew up in Warburton and have a very strong sense of place because of the role of the river in my childhood and teens. I loved your reports of the forests, the changing nature of the river, the moods of the weather and the people you spoke to.
The Yarra requires protection and we must all do our part. Thank you for making this abundantly clear in the book.
Best wishes for the future,
Lindy Kohut

Comment on Reviews and Responses by Mick Woiwod

Mick Woiwod — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:31:49 +0000

Hi Maya
Thanks for the copy of the book. A great read about a great challenge. I’d much appreciate a call from you for a chat. Currertly, I’m on a Wurundjeri Council sub-committee charged with planning the Barak Walk from Healesville to Parliament House this coming August and am in urgent need of your advice.

Cheers,

Mick

Comment on Reviews and Responses by stephanie stone

stephanie stone — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:29:38 +0000

Thank You so much Maya. Your journey has touched a deeply running river within me about country, life
and understanding our place.

And inspired a longing to walk this generous land i dwell within.

Your book to me was pure poetry.

It’s being passed along through a series of friends, family and loved ones.

Comment on Reviews and Responses by tashidawa

tashidawa — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:52:56 +0000

Hello Maya,

Congratulations on an obviously inspiring and necessary work, hope to read it soon, you’ve captured people’s attention in all the right ways it seems, receiving some great reviews! Hope the launch tour goes well as your message is evidently as important now as it has ever been. Thanks for showing such leadership – in walking, writing and sharing. Tashi