Art is in the eye of the beholder and the passion thereof time and limitless. The same can be said about Brad Twaddle’s immeasurable energy and passion for Dancing and the Arts.
The Overstory is not an ordinary environmental tale. Author Richard Powers has architected a powerful message that could have only been crafted by a master writer. This is an important book that will stand the test of time, hopefully for all eternity if we, trees and humans, are able to soldier on.
As a knitter, a weaver, and an anthropologist, H. Morgan Hicks has created a life by design. He owns the bustling yarn shop, "All Points Yarn," in Des Moines, Washington.
Even today I’m haunted by Tommy Wooten because of what became of him. He died in a car crash. There are car accidents every day, but the brutality of Tommy’s car crash lingers.
Paul Ashe was (and still is) the marketing guy, and his conversation in that Washington D.C. barroom a few years back was with the pastor of the Georgetown Lutheran Church. Their convo led to the revelation that the church was the home of the city’s oldest Lutheran congregation, founded seven years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence – and two solid decades before the District of Columbia was designated the nation’s capital. But in recent years, Ashe learned, the church had developed a sad case of tintinnabulation deficit disorder.
Author Mark Pomeroy does a fine job of capturing the saga of a family living in Lents, Oregon. These are real people grappling with real problems in a world where everything has been stacked against them. The family members belong to an invisible economic class—the working poor.