Announcing a Book
Plus a story from the archive
Growing up in the South carried its own set of rules for manners. When I was a little girl my mother would constantly scold me for saying, “I know.” First of all, a child cannot know anything. Secondly, this phrase showed a hubris beyond my years. In the old ways, this is called having a smart mouth.
And yet, I know. My intuition leads me through life like the wind caressing waves on the ocean. Instinct is how I know my book is ready to be released in the wild.
For the past 5 years, I dedicated time to writing a book on healing grief through our relationship with Earth. "Love like Thunder, Grief like Rain" is a memoir and practices to move us through grief. The work is an offering thats lead us back to love with stories, meditations, and mindfulness exercises.
This book poured out of me, slow and sweet like molasses from the jar. I journeyed through seasons of fervent writing and deep rest with the material. I carried book pages with me across the world and tapped at the words until they fell into place.
Sharing it with you now is my way to support anyone who is in deep grief. Our world is thickly laden with hatred and longing, suffering and rejection, disaster and greed. In my experience, there is mystery in the arms of grace and grieving.
Grief is complex. All beings deserve a long rest, a break from chaos, a comforting psalm for dark nights. May this book comfort you through the dense fog of loss and shine a bright light on the path to becoming.
LOGISTICS
I'm happily in the last phases of designing and publishing the book! Soon I'll be taking pre-orders and offering pay-what-you-can digital copies of the book, plus more fun surprises along the way.
In many ways, this book has been a wild garden, my life partner. I feel a great sense of release as this project is, in some ways, 36 years in the making. Thank you to everyone who read advanced versions of the text and listened to my process – pouring my heart out into words, taking the shape of stories.
From the Archive
While you’re here, I want to call your attention toward a re-release!
Begin Forwarded Message is a project that I started at The Westfjords Residency in 2016. The digital book is a true story about a relationship from my past. Essentially it serves as a time capsule for my life from November 2007 to August 2008. There are Myspace crushes, flash photography, ballet flats and stone denim, dreamy poetry, and long emails about politics and philosophy. With permission from the charming man, I share letters and photos from the paramour and all our friends.
”Begin Forwarded Message” has been released in the past through various forms, but never given its proper flowers. The project is referenced in “Love like Thunder, Grief like Rain.” I want to give it a new moment in the sun on Metalabel, where the book will be released soon (!!).
HINT: You can follow the Earth Grief page on Metalabel for future announcements!
THANK YOU FOR READING
I’m simmering in August, loving being in love, building my business, traveling, and keeping up with my loving-kindness practices this month. August is full in a way that feels slow, and easeful in a way that feels exciting. Working carefully to design the final ten percent of the book. I’ll share a sneak peek of book and previews soon!