Seasons of Solace: A Story of Healing through Photos and Poems is a book about my own grief journey and my struggle to find healing. The story is told through narrative, slice-of-life poems, alongside nature photos that metaphorically speak to my emotions.
I did not set out to publish when I started writing these poems. I set out to find healing through writing. The poems express raw emotion. And I found that as I wrote them, emotion that seemed frozen within me began to thaw.
Eventually I began to share the poems with others. People told me how hearing my story helped them identify their own grief in their lives. For some it was illness or disability; for others it was a loss of dreams. But somehow they found that they too experienced a healing as they read or heard the poems.
As Donald Hall has said, "Poetry enacts our own losses so that we can share the notion that we all lose--and hold each other's hand, as it were, in losing."
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Free Book for Donation: Soaring Spirits Loss Foundation is giving a gift of Seasons of Solace for donations of $100 or more to their not-for-profit organization. Read more about it at the
Soaring Spirits Website.
Or read my interview with the founder and director of
Soaring Spirits Loss Foundation.Preface Read
Seasons of Solace preface.
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