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""Beginning, Again"" is a collection of author Linda M. Hasselstrom's writings that have appeared in various places but never in book form. Linda writes: ""In my 81st year, I've enjoyed revisiting them. In many cases, seeing the poem or essay brought back the specific instance which inspired it, which, of course, is one of the best reasons why everyone should write. Memories fade, but if we reinforce memories with our words, we are likely to enjoy them longer. This book will lead the reader through a wild variety of topics that have caught my interest in the 70 or so years that I have been writing coherently. A killdeer sits on her nest. My father's steel bar clangs against other tools in the pickup bed. Women win the vote for those of us who follow them. My mother shrieks at me, trying to create the kind of daughter she wanted. Readers will -- and should -- be led to their own memories as they peruse mine. Close this book and write whenever the impulse strikes you."" James W. Parker adds, ""In our previous book, ""Walking: The Changes"", I used pictures that had somewhat of a tenuous association with the images that Linda drew with her words. In this companion volume, I went back to the well, revisiting old favorites and photographs to illustrate the emotions and feelings Linda writes about. This book was an opportunity for me to resurrect some photographs that had not found a home in my more commercial work, or had spoken to me in a secret language."" ""Beginning, Again"" is the second collaboration between Linda M. Hasselstrom and James W. Parker, bringing the two creative souls back to their South Dakota roots and the peaceful stillness of the prairie.

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Linda started writing when she moved with her mother to a cattle ranch in South Dakota because she was going to get, as she told her teacher, ""A horse and a father."" She was nine years old, and her education in writing, ranching, and living began when her new father made her save her allowance to buy the horse. She earned the allowance by taking care of the family chickens and herding cattle. After college and a variety of teaching jobs at colleges in the center of the nation, she returned to the family ranch. Her first published book, Windbreak: A Woman Rancher on the Northern Plains, was a diary of a year of her life on that ranch.Her writing education was conducted the same way: by doing the work. Besides working as a journalist for several daily newspapers, she has constantly written and submitted her poetry and nonfiction. Wit The eldest son of South Dakota historian Dr. Watson Parker, photographer James Parker has always been fascinated by the architectural detritus and geologic history of the West. As an artist, he's interested in the effects of the passage of time on a human scale. His recent work, Stories Told in Things Left Behind, focuses on interior spaces and rural landscapes.Quirky juxtapositions & peaceful grasslands highlight Parker's images. Whether photographing patterns of wind and water in a desert canyon or focusing on the textures of a faded ranch, his visual commentary echoes the politics, history, and cultures that collided in America's Westward expansion. Parker also shoots on location and in the studio for commercial clients. Using a collection of strobe and tungsten lighting, his 30 years of agency experience, and an art director's eye bring a little extra to every assignment. Lately, he's brought his design skills back to the publishing world, founding Palmer Creek Publishing in 2020.He's been known to photograph the occasional wedding and commercial assignments, although he's more comfortable with inanimate objects and large rocks.

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