Greetings to past, present (and continuing) friends of Cladach Publishing… from beautiful Colorado! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Larry and I are giving thanks for each of you and for all God’s blessings.
I am thankful that lately, as I am doing less editing of our other amazing Cladach authors, I can catch up on my own writing. With joy and gratitude I am announcing …
My new poetry book has just taken wing!
I think my readers will find these 70 poems on nature, the faith life, and love both provocative and encouraging. One pre-reader said these poems helped them “connect their experiences and challenges to meaning and purpose.” Hearing that gives me joy.
Written during the strange, difficult years of 2019-2025, the poems don’t shrink from hard issues. But, as in all my writings, I seek to continually bring us back to hope, wonder, and courage.
Earthy metaphors sprouted up in my heart and mind to paint word pictures of the sacred in everyday moments.
I think you’ll find that the whimsical art and color photos add to the beauty and experience of this book (My thanks to John Timothy Watkin, nature photographer, for the cover photo). And at the back of the book are 12 pages of notes that cast some light on the contexts in which each poem came to be.
FUN FACT:
Dragonflies will wing up the the book’s margin as you flip the pages!
The paperback is available now for $14.00. Click to order (buy one for yourself and one as a gift):
Thankfully,
p.s. As you taste and savor this offering of poetry, may you be renewed in wonder and courage to exclaim with me …
As sapling roots seek communion in intertwined, forested place;
As a smile resolves into laughter, a touch melts in embrace;
As a honeybee homes in on colony after foraging far, alone,
Caught in storms but again re-orienting, hoping against hope—
I flow to You, reach for You, fly into You.
(last stanza of the poem “You In Me and I In You” from WHERE ALL THINGS MEET, MIRROR & MINGLE.)
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Dear Catherine, Thank you for the notification of your new book, and Congratulations!. It sounds and looks like a wonderful book. Judith
Thank you, Judith, for reading my post and taking time to respond. Happy Thanksgiving!