Dragonfly:  Poems of Transformation and Spiritual Guidance

Charming, colorful and free….dragonflies have survived for millenium across the word bringing delight to those who capture a glimpse of them in flight, or perched upon a leaf.

                    hija de la tierra

hija de la tierra

     your ancestors were goddesses and kings

     who ruled across lifespans

     steel town girl

     your ancestors are diminished to barrio dogs and cats

     dogs and cats who roam the alleys of society

     dogs and cats teach us how to live

hija de la tierra

     you were born to reign above the mountains

     you should be born to live in peace

Irene Blea’s book of poetry written across the decades from her youth to middle age offers insights into the world of a young Chicana woman breaking through the expectations of her youth with calmly fierce determination and a drive to succeed.

Click here for more information about Irene Blea and    Dragonfly:  Poems of Transformation and Spiritual Guidance   

Rose Marie Kern, President of RMK Publications recently gave a presentation for the SouthWest Writers workshop Series.   Her powerpoint presentation was converted to a .pdf  and is free to interested writers.  NOTE:  The information given is general in nature and not intended to take the place of any legal determination.  This is a general overview.  Personal or specific information relating to rights or copyrights should be taken to a copyright attorney for clarification.

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“As the author of a definitive biography on 20^th century naturalist and children’s author, Thornton W. Burgess, I was moved to tears in reading his account of watching the last Heath Hen on Martha’s Vineyard, Booming Ben as the Vineyarders named him, emerge alone from scrub brush onto his species’ mating grounds in the final years of the 1920s. This was the sole bird of its kind, without a mate or even a companion to answer his questioning calls.”

Thus began Christie’s crusade to encourage the next generation of children to become aware of how so many species on this planet can disappear for a number of reasons.

Christie writes, “When I was pondering how I could possibly bring this subject of unmitigated loss to a child without causing despair, the book’s final message came to me: we make the effort because life, all life, in its grand and glorious diversity matters. It will always matter. ”

The Last Heath Hen:  An Extinction Story is supported by the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, and by the Thornton Burgess Society.

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