Radiance of the Ordinary

Essays on Life, Death, and the Sinews That Bind

De: Tara Couture

Narrado por: Tara Couture

For most of her youth and early adulthood, Tara Couture had a deep fear of death. When her mother left the house, Tara would beg her to stay, certain that death was right around the corner. As the threat loomed in her mind, distraction in its many forms became her only relief.

In her twenties, determined to manifest her long-time dream of owning a farm, Tara worked alongside a cattleman, Richard, whose perspectives on life and death would come to transform her own. When Tara found herself in the passenger seat of Richard’s truck out on the Alberta prairie, in search of the bison herd from which they would harvest an animal, she could hardly believe what she had signed up for. But even more surprising was the realization that experience awakened in her: that life and death are inextricably connected. When we shield ourselves from death—or from any of the hard things in life—we close ourselves off to the beauty and richness of a life fully lived.

Radiance of the Ordinary is a collection of stories about leaning into that beauty and richness—through the work we choose to engage with, the way we steward the land and make our homes, the food we put into our bodies, the relationships we cultivate, and the attention we pay to the ordinary moments. After all, we never do know how many of those precious moments we have left to savor.

©2025 Tara Couture (P)2025 Chelsea Green Publishing Company

my favorite book, now.

Tara tells her stories as they have occurred and shaped her life. and her life is so beautiful. The way she lives, the way she related to the world, her connection to the more than human world and her dedication to real unfiltered living is the most wholesome thing I've heard all my life. A true living legend of old times in the now times.

Wonderfully written

Authors ability to bring into the story, feel the earth, hear the song birds, feel the loss.

Absolutely one of the best heartfelt book ever

Thank you so much for sharing your story. Your words, your thoughts every word moved me, truly. You amaze me. Bless you and your family. OUTSTANDING.

A must read.

This is a story of true north. Of meandering childhood, finding adulthood and life itself itself. It’s about love, creating love and the loss we all suffer. It’s about finding grace in the everyday and acknowledging where it comes from to us all. Many thanks to Tara for sharing this with us all.

Absolutely beautiful

Beautifully poetic, Tara tells stories about the tugs of life. Where there is peace, there is also conflict. We cant have joy with out sorrow, no beauty with out displeasure. Truly feeling the contrast between those things and her honest and genuine intention showing the riches of life through nature, relationship, connection and love.

Glowing!!!

She is Wendell Berry, James Herriott and Robin Wall Kimmerer all stirred up into a genuine farm girl!!!

Beautiful and thought-provoking

Wonderful stories reminding us that a simple (which is not to say easy) life may be our best path to beauty, joy, and fulfillment and that joy and sorrow, life and death are inextricably intertwined and even dependent upon each other.