Drawing Close, Encountering Joy
Janice E. Kirk
(Author)
Description
From Fort Rock to Hovenweep, redwoods to the Rockies, ocean to high desert, here is an invitation to connect with the natural world. Psalms and prayers for the earth unfold from early morning dew through daytime hours to the night watch. Delight in the colors of dawn, linger in the fellowship of the forest, savor the solitude, lament the losses, be refreshed by tumbling waters, celebrate the glories of life, and hear the robin singing . . . singing. Draw close, enter into the experience. Encounter the joy and peace of the natural world. Through the eyes of an artist, discover nature's abiding witness to the ""wondrous Mystery wrapped in beauty.""Product Details
Price
$30.00
$27.90
Publisher
Resource Publications (CA)
Publish Date
July 05, 2022
Pages
128
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.5 X 0.38 inches | 0.65 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781666742909
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About the Author
A lifetime of camping and sketching the American West is inspiration for artist and author, Janice E. Kirk. Works include Milton the Mouse; The Christmas Redwood, a Forest Parable; The Road to Beaver Park, Painting, Perception, and Pilgrimage; Cherish the Earth, the Environment and Scripture. She also illustrated Wild Edible Plants of Western North America (D. R. Kirk, 1970). Teacher of art, language arts, and music, including voice at Simpson University in Redding, California, she hopes readers will enjoy nature's wonders every day.
Reviews
"Here is what we know. Ours is a perilous time of mass instability, with grief and lament at the loss of a beautiful world trailing everywhere. All the more important, then, to discover beauty and nurture wonder for a life of joy, even among the ruins. Janice Kirk does just that with prayers and psalms and sketches in the garb of good poetry. Read slowly in a quiet place and be fed."
--Larry Rasmussen, author of The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty's a Sure Thing
"Janice Kirk sweetly remembers her family trips to the furthest reaches of the West in poems and passages of praise. Hers is a voice of appreciation and invitation that will make you want to find not only such a place as the hidden campsite of Marmot Spring but also the hidden source of living waters that provide for us a resting place, now and forever."
--Paul J. Willis, author of Deer at Twilight: Poems from the North Cascades
--Larry Rasmussen, author of The Planet You Inherit: Letters to My Grandchildren When Uncertainty's a Sure Thing
"Janice Kirk sweetly remembers her family trips to the furthest reaches of the West in poems and passages of praise. Hers is a voice of appreciation and invitation that will make you want to find not only such a place as the hidden campsite of Marmot Spring but also the hidden source of living waters that provide for us a resting place, now and forever."
--Paul J. Willis, author of Deer at Twilight: Poems from the North Cascades
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