Brushed by the Butterfly's Wings

Depicting The Painful Start-And-Stop Process, Which Is An Inevitable Part Of Humankind'S Quest For A More Enlightened World, Brushed By The Butterfly'S Wings Presents The First Three Decades Of The Twentieth Century As A Complex Period In Which A Visionary Few Are Beginning To See The Errancy Of An Unjust Society And Its Retentive Belief Systems. Set In The Southern-Most Foothills Of The Appalachians, It Is A Fictional Account Of Those Few, Of The Circumstances That Propelled Them And The Resistance That They Met; A Story Of Human Courage, Which Pits Family Member Against Family Member And An Idealistic Minority Against A Complacent Majority Who Can See Neither A Reason For Nor The Irreversibility Of A Restlessness That Seethes Beneath A Facade Of False Civility On The Part Of Some And Painful Acquiescence On The Part Of Others. With A Dichotomy Of Colorful Characters, Lyrical Descriptions, Hints Of The Supernatural, And Flashbacks, It Is A Moving Account Of A Society On The Brink Of Change, As Well As A Precursor Of Things To Come -- And From Conventional Wisdom, To Dogmatic Religiosity, To A Still-Latent Cry For Civil Rights, There Are No Sacred Cows. A Must-Read For Anyone Interested In The Deterrent Effects Of A World More Comfortable With The Supposed Wisdom Of Traditionalism Than With New Conceptual Realities And The Changing Paradigms That Accompany Them.