Burdens and Blessings: Mood, Mirth, and Affirmation

In this collection of American haiku and self-revealing poems, Teola Ruoff Constance shares her insights on the natural and spiritual worlds, and on the experiences and emotions that have burdened and blessed her.

Feedsack dresses, baked beans, a wart, cherry pits, weariness, despair, sorrow, grandchildren, thanksgiving, parallel parking, quiet night hours, resignation, rebirth -- Teola interprets these and other ingredients of life with the grace, reverence, and humor owed to the roles they have played in her own journey.