Bird's Eye View

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>When Jan Moves to Guatemala with her young daughter to run a medical clinic on the heels of her divorce she knows the experience will be difficult and life-changing. But she doesn't anticipate all the ways she will change.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>To make sense of her professional personal and parenting turmoil in a country with plenty of its own turmoil Jan finds herself adopting a Maya worldview that weaves together concepts of duality (there can be no light without dark no joy without pain) harmony with nature and the importance of connecting to the past to understand one's present self.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Awash with elements of Maya mythology history and culture and innumerable revelations of the compassion intelligence and resilience of the Guatemalan people</span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Bird's-Eye View</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is a coming-of-middle-age story that shows how viewing life through the prism of a different set of myths can help an individual understand the familiar tales they have unwittingly followed.</span></p>