Setting the Table in the Age of Reason

A celebration in verse of the beauty of everyday life through the examination of common objects and one's relationship to them as evidenced by memory observation and the senses.Christine Adams whose work has appeared in Litchfield Magazine The Red Wheelbarrow and at CtHistory.org among others is a development coordinator for a Connecticut land trust. She celebrates the connective beauty of nature and historic places and is active in the preservation and conservation movement in her historic town.Through her poetry she explores the divine in seemingly mundane aspects of ordinary existence illustrating the unexpected and complex joys of everyday life. The mother of three she lives in an antique mill house in New Preston Connecticut with her dog Bert. Setting the Table in the Age of Reason is her first book.An atmospheric gentle yet purposeful wandering through the tactile pleasures of everyday life -Susannah Eanes author of Lucky Southern Women