The Perfect Summer Read

Friends,

Every morning my friend Steve rises before the birds, and composes a poem — deep, wise, spiritually informed — and then he gifts it to the world on his site, www.unfoldinglight.net.

He has done this every day for more than 45 years!  This is such a courageous and disciplined practice, I have been moved and inspired by him and by the poems that pour out of him, for years.

Today, I am so proud to introduce the book in which he has gathered many of this finest works: Unfolding Light.

If you are looking for a summer read, go no further.

Here is what Steve says about his poems:

Poetry, like religion, is the practice of wonder—a way of being open, a way of reaching out to touch the hem of the world’s garment. Like the great spiritual teachers, poetry invites us to be radically present, to inhabit the world a little more closely, to attend a little more lovingly, with an awareness beyond the mere mind…There’s delight and suffering and mystery: everything the heart desires. We’re embedded in it. All we have to do is slow down and pay attention. Poetry is a way of letting the world come to you. 

Unfolding Light is a collection of 184 poems gathered from 45 years of writing. They are part of my practice of wonder….rooted in my observation that the world is a thin place, filled with mystery,  the divine presence, tears of every kind, and abundant blessing.

 Steve will illuminate your steps for years to come, I promise.

I don’t often endorse a book, but this is a beauty.

You can order books here

Blessings,

Kathleen