{"product_id":"pine-melody-a-memoir-9798295403217","title":"Pine Melody: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eSwerving to avoid a deer on a dark Wisconsin highway in early summer, 22-year old Gabe lost control of the car. His 29-year old brother Jonah, singing along with him as he drove, absorbed the full force of the impact with an oncoming pick-up driven by the Chief of a First Nation. The crash left Jonah with severe traumatic brain injury, Gabe with a broken femur, and soil samples, meticulously gathered for Jonah's graduate research project on agroforestry, strewn across the highway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs General Counsel for a Philadelphia medical center, I was competent enough to interact with my sons' care teams, but lost all semblance of professionalism when neither my legal expertise, search for a medical miracle nor tenacity of my love was able to bring benefit to Jonah. He lingered in a coma for three months before dying in hospice. I was left to find a way to carry on for the sake of Jonah's brothers while handling my own grief and helplessness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImmersing myself in Jonah's journals and memories of his extraordinary, spirit-filled life, my pillars of support materialized--meditation, yoga, prayer and sailing. With Jonah as my spirit guide in the bard and beyond, I navigated pathways between terror and beauty that Jonah had spent his life seeking. Pine Melody is the result of my journey. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stacey Meadows\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798295403217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Stacey Meadows","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52161403977909,"sku":"9798295403217","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_33a6e49e-eccc-4fa4-a431-4bf79deb1657.jpg?v=1768318339","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pine-melody-a-memoir-9798295403217","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}