Kala's Choice - Softcover

Breece, Marcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944887164 ISBN 13: 9781944887162

Verlag: Publishing Partners, 2017

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Reseña del editor:

A mindful look into the true distinction between lack and abundance. The world around a three-year-old girl, abandoned in the heart of Mumbai, churns with the consequences of abject poverty. With little awareness of life beyond survival, the child and her pack-mates focus on the present moment as they dig in garbage for food, drink water with the cows and sleep on the sidewalk. Claire Kaine, a corporate executive working in India, is totally focused on her career until she sees the tiny homeless girl bathing in the hotel fountain. Her corporate facade begins to soften. As their unusual friendship develops, the core of Claire’s life finds a new direction as their bond influences many other people, like ripples in a pond. This carefully researched novel highlights critical changes in India’s history during the 1990s. Marcia Breece tells a story of community, kindness, and hope while inviting the reader to witness the unbreakable bonds of love and the healing power of compassion.

Biografía del autor:

Once a globe-trotting corporate executive, and long before that, a stay-at-home mom, Marcia Breece now lives on the Washington Coast where she has found her authentic Self. Marcia’s corporate career included working to establish wireless communication networks in India, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. In the 1990s, during her employment with AT&T Wireless, she worked in Pune, Goa, Mumbai, and Ahmedabad. In 1999, she returned to India for a three-month assignment for GTE helping to establish wireless and Internet service in Chandigarh, Punjab. Writing first became her outlet in the late 70s when she began journaling. In the 80s she wrote user manuals and in the 90s she wrote articles for technical magazines but longed to write from her heart. After years of working in a corporate environment, Marcia realized she couldn’t breathe deep enough and still show up at the office. A line from Mary Oliver’s poem said it all . . . are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? (“Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches.”) She left her corporate career in 2005 to buy a llama farm and open a B&B. Her hens provided fresh eggs, the ducks, and geese ate the slugs in the garden and five llamas provided fiber that became beautiful rugs. As much as she loved the animals, she found that farm chores and tending to B&B guests left little time for writing. In 2011 she sold the farm and moved to the Washington coast where she lives with her two Havanaese, Dora and Ellie. “My wanderlust has passed. This is what I need for now.”

When she’s not writing, Marcia helps other authors self-publish their books, whether as eBook, POD, or audiobook. “It’s a typical grass roots story,” says Marcia. “An author friend asked me to help with his book, then his friend did the same, and soon I had a group of author clients that needed help with self-publishing. I’m convinced that if you stay open, what you love to do will find its way to you."

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• Verlag: Publishing Partners
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1944887164
• ISBN 13: 9781944887162
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 222