Conversations of the Soul

It was on the worst day of her life in May of 1997 - when the authors arms hung paralyzed at her sides when she howled like a wild animal because of the nerve pain when she couldnt lift her arms to wipe her hair-and-mucus-plastered face - that she begged God to give her a job to give her purpose. She was only 47. Around her life went on - family graduations weddings funerals... She tried her best to keep up with social traffic and with her husbands help she looked presentable to the public. She didnt know it then but her pain was giving birth. The writer in her being squeezed and pushed was slowly coming through the birth canal of authorhood. This debut collection consists of (She has to count twice because she cant believe how many.) 61 thoughts and feelings that she memorized on her nature-trail prayer walks and later dictated into an old cassette recorder. (She couldnt hold a pencil.) This work spans a 13-year period of the sufferers life who searched for a cure visited many doctors agonized through various modalities of physical therapy and eventually agreed to try surgery with a meager 13% chance of recovery. Post-surgery she is fortunate. Though she still has challenges she thanks God for resurrecting her dead arms. Born from the hellish pain of Brachial Plexopathy paralysis the poems & artwork will make you tear up and chuckle. The author cries. She stomps her feet. Then she puts one foot in front of the other. And moves forward. Inspirational!