Overview
""Only the good die young,"" croons Billy Joel, and we all know exactly what he's talking about. It is always those who are too light, too bright for this planet that seem to make their exits early. We concede that it could be in part because they are immortalized in the bloom of their youth, too soon to make the mistakes the rest of us make sooner or later and live to regret, but we wonder, somehow, if it isn't something more than that. What if...they are special? Spirits, angels even, who have agreed somewhere out in the ether, before they took bodies in this life, to come to earth for only short periods at a time, bless those they come in contact with intensely, and then leave again, lift off into the next cycle of life and love? And what if...you had the unlikely experience of knowing such a spirit twice in one lifetime? Once as their peer and once as their elder? How we long for such a reprieve from the losses we experience, how we hope to be brushed, even for an instant, with the ethereal traces of the one who is gone from us. What if it happened for real, and you knew it?
Full Product Details
Author: Kim Cope Tait
Publisher: Conversations with Crows Press
Imprint: Conversations with Crows Press
Edition: 3rd ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.263kg
ISBN: 9781944242329
ISBN 10: 1944242325
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 11 September 2020
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
There is great art to the manner in which Tait intently elicits the power of youthful passion and friendship while gently prying the band-aid from the wounds of mature grief in order to spread a spiritual balm capable of freeing hearts and souls. She writes in beautiful, vivid, nuanced prose, guiding us through an entrancing, ethereal weave of beginning and end, where we become instantly and steadfastly connected to Inertia's select cast of characters - seemingly molded from our own flesh, in the silhouette of our own spirit - and are enticed into their compelling story. --Mary Boland
"""There is great art to the manner in which Tait intently elicits the power of youthful passion and friendship while gently prying the band-aid from the wounds of mature grief in order to spread a spiritual balm capable of freeing hearts and souls. She writes in beautiful, vivid, nuanced prose, guiding us through an entrancing, ethereal weave of beginning and end, where we become instantly and steadfastly connected to Inertia's select cast of characters - seemingly molded from our own flesh, in the silhouette of our own spirit - and are enticed into their compelling story."" --Mary Boland"
""There is great art to the manner in which Tait intently elicits the power of youthful passion and friendship while gently prying the band-aid from the wounds of mature grief in order to spread a spiritual balm capable of freeing hearts and souls. She writes in beautiful, vivid, nuanced prose, guiding us through an entrancing, ethereal weave of beginning and end, where we become instantly and steadfastly connected to Inertia's select cast of characters - seemingly molded from our own flesh, in the silhouette of our own spirit - and are enticed into their compelling story."" --Mary Boland
Author Information
Kim Cope Tait's other novels include 'Bend the Blue Sky' and 'Kealaula.' She has a full-length collection of poetry called 'Shadow Tongue' published with Finishing Line Press and a chapbook of poems entitled 'Element' published with Leaping Dog Press. Her guided meditations are available on the album, 'Lotus Wheel: Guided Meditations for Relaxation and Healing.' Kim continues to write and now lives in New Zealand with her husband.
