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Despite what you’ve been reading in the funny papers, our world is not in a hopeless state. Witness this heart-snatching collection of prose, poetry, and artwork by editor Betsy Ellor, who has collected and mounted a book-load of pieces showing ourselves to be good people living in a good place, a place which we have earned and deserve.All the nuggets in this sluice are golden, all are tender and all are true, even the fiction.The ideas of family, troubles, and survival are laced through the works like a golden thread.Bobbi Lerman shows us a mother and daughter bound together by their love of books. Maria Daversa’s mother and daughter are tore apart by drugs, but survive. Christi Byerly tells us of a pair of sisters who become a triangle with the entry of substance abuse, yet they endure. Susan Klobuchar explains that in the time of Covid, a home-grown tomato can be magical to a child.Mathew Phillion reworks O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi” to illustrate that the real Christmas gift is love. Sweetman uses the idea of Santa Claus to show that children can be even more comforting to each other than can adults.The soul of the book is contained in the book’s epigram, by Ram Dass: “We’re all just walking each other home.”Turn off the news and read this book, you’ll feel better about things.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2021
Despite what you’ve been reading in the funny papers, our world is not in a hopeless state. Witness this heart-snatching collection of prose, poetry, and artwork by editor Betsy Ellor, who has collected and mounted a book-load of pieces showing ourselves to be good people living in a good place, a place which we have earned and deserve.
All the nuggets in this sluice are golden, all are tender and all are true, even the fiction.
The ideas of family, troubles, and survival are laced through the works like a golden thread.
Bobbi Lerman shows us a mother and daughter bound together by their love of books. Maria Daversa’s mother and daughter are tore apart by drugs, but survive. Christi Byerly tells us of a pair of sisters who become a triangle with the entry of substance abuse, yet they endure. Susan Klobuchar explains that in the time of Covid, a home-grown tomato can be magical to a child.
Mathew Phillion reworks O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi” to illustrate that the real Christmas gift is love. Sweetman uses the idea of Santa Claus to show that children can be even more comforting to each other than can adults.
The soul of the book is contained in the book’s epigram, by Ram Dass: “We’re all just walking each other home.”
Turn off the news and read this book, you’ll feel better about things.
All the nuggets in this sluice are golden, all are tender and all are true, even the fiction.
The ideas of family, troubles, and survival are laced through the works like a golden thread.
Bobbi Lerman shows us a mother and daughter bound together by their love of books. Maria Daversa’s mother and daughter are tore apart by drugs, but survive. Christi Byerly tells us of a pair of sisters who become a triangle with the entry of substance abuse, yet they endure. Susan Klobuchar explains that in the time of Covid, a home-grown tomato can be magical to a child.
Mathew Phillion reworks O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi” to illustrate that the real Christmas gift is love. Sweetman uses the idea of Santa Claus to show that children can be even more comforting to each other than can adults.
The soul of the book is contained in the book’s epigram, by Ram Dass: “We’re all just walking each other home.”
Turn off the news and read this book, you’ll feel better about things.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 28, 2021
