Matt and I wrote a book. I think it's filled with heart and beauty and love. It's also filled with the horrible and the horrifying, luring us into the moments and minutia we tend to hide--in living rooms unvisited or behind nursing home walls. It's a book of stories and reflections about modern death.
As the horrors of state violence, genocide, and unabashed disregard for the life of the o/Other play out before us, live-streamed into our pockets (if we are willing to hit "unblur"), my hope would be that the same heart that was at work in the writing of these pages would foster an empathic imagination in each reader that would extend to the dying in every context, including the overtly political.
We'll see.
I do hope you'll love it. The whole project was and is a work of love. We received our author copies this week. Locally, you'll be able to purchase a copy from one of us soon. You can also order right away over at Wipf & Stock.
Much love, all.
Peace.
Tom
No comments:
Post a Comment