Surprised by Glory: Essays on Searching for the Sublime - Softcover

Ray, Shari Brand

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798985029871

Verlag: Bohannon Hall Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

In an age when the world can feel especially dark, Surprised By Glory is a collection of true stories and hopeful essays that invites the reader to consider setting down the fear and anger of the current moment in order to seek instead the grandeur in this most fascinating and diverse world of ours.

In her stories, Ray writes of the important choice of love and connection, as well as the search for the glory of each particular moment––from stories of swim coaches and Holocaust survivors and little kids’ Christmas pageants and even sitting at the bedside of the dying, to the flabbergasting amazement of a total eclipse and the visitation of an angel in a train station in Romania in the middle of a most dangerous night. Ray asks her readers to examine how we approach each precious day, with the gentle reminder that the lenses through which we view our lives are solely our own choice. The stories in this collection prompt us to consider what we are doing, accruing, and pursuing with our limited number of mornings, evenings, and afternoons, and Ray reminds the reader how vital it is to open our eyes to the magnificence of the moment, to accept the miraculous without logic or question, and to lay down the common anger that can so easily beset us all.

"How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives," ...and we only have one life––this one. Thus, the stories in Surprised By Glory encourage us to spend our wild and precious life in search of the sublime and in the pursuit of the glorious, for such searching is worth our efforts and produces remarkable, even miraculous, results.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

A teacher of literature and writing in the Memphis area for nearly forty years, Shari Brand Ray is currently English Department Chair at St. Mary's Episcopal School in Memphis. A native Memphian, Shari enjoys taking long walks on the Greenline, teaching English, and writing on her back porch while she watches the birds. Infusing verse throughout much of her prose, Ray leans on the shoulders of the great poets for both truth and inspiration. After a lifetime of writing down stories, her first book, Surprised by Imperfection, was released in 2022

Sarah Robin Coleman began her journey toward an art career as a young child under the tutelage of her artist grandmother, who taught her the basic principles of drawing, balance and color theory while other children her age were still finger painting. She continued her education in the arts receiving a Bachelor's degree in History with a minor in Fine Arts. She has worked as a portrait artist in watercolor, oil and acrylic, and, in various genres, as an illustrator. Her beautiful, mystical paintings hang in private collections across the country.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bohannon Hall Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798985029871
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Coleman Sarah Robin
• Anzahl der Seiten: 286
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