{"product_id":"9780989101455","title":"Remembering Softly: A Life in Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThose of us who enjoy poetry and who compose poetry do so because, for us, nothing quite distills the feelings of a moment as does a piece of rhyming or free verse with its sense, sound, and form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA poem comes from some place in the heart. And as it is read, it reveals something about the heart. Like music, it may employ major or minor tones. I hope at least one of the poems in this volume, selected expressions from each stage of my life, will touch a chord for the reader—perhaps in a major key of delight or consolation; perhaps with minor overtones of grief or longing. May you find something here to illumine your path and lighten your soul at whatever place of life you find yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom my wanderings in—and wondering about—nature; from opening more and more to the Divine; from faith, family, and friends; out of noisy living and quiet places; out of whelming emotions, questionings and questing ... come poems to help cope, to make sense of it all, to ennoble earthly life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn crisis has come hope; in fear has come faith; in fragility has come strength; in joy has come affirmation; in loss has come bounteous grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI want to remember it all, but softly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CLADACH Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014028312816,"sku":"9780989101455","price":15.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780989101455_p0.jpg?v=1763902341","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780989101455","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}