Some Notes You Hold

'SOME NOTES YOU HOLD contains poetry about surviving what life throws at us as we age. The so-called 'Golden Years' are so named because of the high admission price-the tremendous losses, disappointments, illnesses, and failures we all experience if we live long enough. The first part of the book, called 'Letting Go,' focuses on surviving deep grief; the second half, called 'Holding On,' explores all the roads leading to survival: playing music, prayer and meditation, deep communion with the natural world, and writing. The price paid for those 'golden years' leads to the prize: insight, joy, and a kind of peace we were incapable of when we were young'--