The Church of One Life

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Church of One Life: A Memoir in Story Lyric Essay Letters & Poems </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a fragmented memoir comprised of many sections in different literary forms: narratives lyric essays letters (some acting as hermit crab essays) and poems. These work together to create a whole picture of one person's life and times seen as part of our shared oneness in our one-shot lives filled with choices and their consequences.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Family friends strangers travel tears trees racism sex faith death meteors absence presence slime mold and other hymns to being all find their place in this book. These stories and meditations present a mosaic of one life in the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st. They offers an invitation for readers to recognize their own ways of wonder gratitude and reckoning with challenges facing both our individual lives and our society. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sections of the book tell stories of family of origin relationships and parenting reflections on griefs and loss wonder at the natural world growing understandings about sexuality and race church life travel and witness to social justice issues.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Readers of memoir lyric essay epistolary writing and poetry will enjoy how these element work together to create an authentic vulnerable often humorous telling of one life's relationships wonder and witness to challenges and always possibilities. </span></p>