<p><em>Prism</em> is about the life of a teacher a writer a simple human shared in the hybrid form of a collage essay that reflects and refracts epiphanies borne out of moments of regret joy tragedy fear and love. It is a review of the colorful experiences of life and their re-assembly into something more powerful. In each segment we come to understand ourselves and each other with greater compassion kindness and grace in our own transformation.</p><p><em>Prism</em> is a literary binding and fashioning of fact with a touch of fiction illusion dreaming and reimagined memory.</p><p>VanWestervelt invites you to witness a statement of existence - just like your own - unimaginable without the contribution of each hue-touched shard that reveals an abstract map of individual evolution illuminated through love hope and light.</p>