PETER COYOTE SERIES
“Where would our tenderness come from, where would our empathy for other people come from if we didn’t have suffering to soften us?” asks Coyote in the rich smooth voice that has narrated more than 120 documentaries, including Ken Burns’ recent seven-part series “The Roosevelts.” “We might think we were bullet-proof.” And so it is to them that he dedicates his second memoir, “The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education” (Counterpoint Press, April 14), a follow-up to 1998’s “Sleeping Where I Fall.”ĭespite the emotional pain he endured in his youth, Coyote clearly has come to embrace it as much as the many joys he’s experienced in his 73 years.
But the longtime Mill Valley resident would be the first to admit that he may not have made it without the many mentors who seemed to pop up in his life when he needed them the most. Not for Peter Coyote, the award-winning politically engaged actor, director, screenwriter, author, narrator and ordained Zen Buddhist priest, who eventually found clarity, wisdom and truth in spirituality. It’s a familiar story, one that can end any number of ways, including tragically. A child grows up with a critical domineering father and fragile mother, rejects the family’s wealth and power, turns to drugs to heal the inner wounds, achieves fame and fortune, and hits the nadir during a midlife divorce.
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