News, March 2021
The first article about my forthcoming book A Private Wilderness is now online. I was really glad to see that, out of all the possible choices of direction the article could have taken after a wide-ranging hour-long interview, writer Taylor Haelterman chose to give special emphasis to the importance of following a dream. She took the lessons I gave her from Sigurd’s life and from mine. Here’s the key excerpt:
“In life, so many people give up,” Backes said. “We have a society that says ‘be all that you can be,’ but then really discourages you from doing it because ‘oh, that’s not really practical.’
Well, Sigurd and I believe that it’s not only practical but necessary.”
