Surviving the Storm - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966895231 ISBN 13: 9780966895230

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Surviving the Storm is a beautifully crafted book with the look, feel, and content that make it the perfect gift for you or a friend. Its poetry is insightful and understandable. Its artwork adds to the beauty of this unique book. See the "inside flap" and "back cover" for more description and to learn what others are saying about Surviving the Storm.

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Patrick W. Flanigan, M.D. is a hematologist and medical oncologist practicing in Salinas, California. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. During his years of caring for patients with blood diseases and cancer, he has gained insights into the physical and spiritual aspects of life and death. He has tried to express those insights in his poems. His formal education includes the Ohio State University and the University of California at Los Angeles. Seminars with Huston Smith, Joseph Campbell, Robert Bly, and Brother David Steindl-Rast have contributed to his development. His wife and two daughters have also taught him much about life.

Christine Crozier is a professional artist who provided the illustrations for the book. She has family ties to Monterey County, California, where she and her husband, Jeff who is also an artist, maintain a studio. She formally started painting when she was 13 years old under the direction of a traditional teacher from Taiwan. Her professional experience earned her a Masters Degree equivalency from the State of California in 1987. She taught at the Monterey Peninsula College from 1987 to 1992. "When I can I prefer to paint from nature. Painting is an emotional process and working out in the elements makes it more so." Her work is shown in galleries in Vail and Durango, Colorado, in Truchas, New Mexico, and in Carmel, California.

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Surviving the Storm is a collection of poems about celebration, love, sorrow, struggle, acceptance, and healing. The poems heighten our awareness of the contradictions, complexity, and underlying simplicity of life. They help us get in touch with our successes and joys, our frustrations and pains. The words and illustrations help us rediscover our souls and the spirit of the universe that is speaking to us through all things all the time. The poems keep us grounded in the beauty and mystery of life, a life that wants our attention and gratitude.

This beautiful book takes it readers on a voyage of discovery into the inner world of feelings and into the outer world of sights, sounds, and the great mystery of the universe.

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Here are several poems from Surviving the Storm.

The Love Poem
He started to write
a love poem
on the petals
of a daisy

Not knowing
if she loved him
or loved him not,
he dared

to expose his soul
like the yellow
gold center of the flower
on which he wrote.

Before black ink
stained the last white petal,
she touched his neck
and whispered "I love you."

Well Worn
Most of my things
do not acquire a patina
even though I like
faded jeans,
well worn leather,
and the muted green
of weathered copper.

Maybe I wash my hands
too often
and touch the world around me
too little.

I remember outgrowing
a cowboy outfit as a child.
It was as clean as new
when we gave it away.

Time is making me
less afraid
of scars and stains,
more appreciative
of the hard and soft
people and things
around me,
more willing
to risk everything
to be well worn
and pleasantly used
before I outgrow
this life.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0966895231
• ISBN 13: 9780966895230
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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