A acutely personal, aboveboard account of one ancestors not alone advancing to agreement with its grief, but aswell adulatory its accomplished and difficult present. This accumulating of balladry bang agitating and accepted chords alms a eyes of activity abounding with little treasures that backpack us aback to what is absolutely important in our lives
Lake County, CA -- On August 16, 2004, Julia Ann Thompson, 61, was dead in a car wreck. Julia's plan as a world-class physicist accompanying with her extensive amusing efforts for adequation and amends fabricated a abstruse aberration in the world. Julia's husband, Dave Kraus, and mother, Ruth Thompson, were aswell acutely afflicted in the accident, yet through months of skill, care, and willpower, recovered from their injuries. This adverse and abrupt abstract befuddled the Riehl’s ancestors at its foundation.
In the year afterward Julie’s death, sister and author, Janet Riehl confused aback to her Midwest adolescence home of Evergreen Heights, Illinois to be with her ancestors during this time of shock and grief. The different affiliated home place, pioneered in the 1860s by Riehl’s abundant grandfather, provided the abundance and amore bare by this ancestors to appear together, grieve, and redefine their lives for the future.
Inspired to address back adolescence by her biographer father, Riehl bound a six generational ancestors account told through adventure balladry in “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” (ISBN 0595374999). The plan of one woman’s seek to acquisition acceptation in a absurd tragedy, “Sightlines” strikes accepted chords absolute the cycles of animal activity such as caring for parents, aging, death, and afflication as able-bodied as the means in which they strengthens ancestors spirit. “’Sightlines’ shows how we confused through important stages of affliction and became stronger as a family,’ explains Riehl. “Not all families accept such abysmal roots, but back ours does, it makes a absolute arbiter for activity cycles and the accent of memory.”
“I capital to use the plan as an act of healing for my family, the beyond animal family, and myself,” adds Riehl. Twenty-five photos from the ancestors annal are featured in “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” punctuating the 90 balladry giving an amplified faculty of time and place. “Memories” is a cogent basal affair throughout this collection, and through the acquaintance of Riehl’s anapestic diary, readers will acquisition new acceptation to their own activity adventures and the abiding memories that afford anniversary and every day. “My ambition is that you will appear to a added acknowledgment of your parents, your family, and your own abode aural it,” concludes Riehl.
Janet Grace Riehl accelerating from Alton High School in 1967. She accustomed a Master’s in English from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and co-edited its balladry magazine, Sou’Wester. She lived and formed 5 years in Africa volunteering aboriginal for Peace Corps and after for British World Friends (Quakers). Riehl accurate herself for decades teaching and autograph for business and education. The Kellogg Foundation sponsored Riehl as a Fellow in International Development absorption on Latin American culture. She now lives in a rural across in Lake County in Northern California, area she operates Rocking Triangle Studio and sits on the axle of EcoArts. This bounce she was called as a finalist for the artist laureate of Lake County. “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” (ISBN 0595374999) can be purchased at online bookstores. For added advice or to acquaintance Riehl, go to www.sightlinesbook.com which has photos, accomplishments information, a blog, reviews and more.
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