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The Book, The Burial, by R. Penman Smith is available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and directly from Tate Publishing. The Burial is a Spiritual Thriller with a dark twist and a redemptive outcome. The story springs out personal experience; ‘write what you know about’. Those who are comfortable with fantasy and are not afraid of the reality of the spiritual warfare inherent in Christian life will love this book.

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Imagination is the faculty through which we discover the world around us, both the world we see, and that other unseen world that hovers on the fringe of sight. Love, joy and laughter, poetry and prose, are the gifts through which we approach that complex world. Through the gift of imagination we have stepped into an ever flowing river where the realm of Faerie touches Middle Earth.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Appalachian Summer Song












The road winds listening
single lane beneath
overhanging fronds of giant ragweed
along valley bottoms.
Hills loom listening
old lumps of tired mountains
weather worn, time worn
embracing narrow valleys
embracing narrow people
with shadows
stillness,
air close,
warm
horizon close
sky remote
shacks
woodpiles
hungry heavy jowled dogs
deep chested barking,
mufflers barking,
whine of chainsaws,
whine of babies,
drone of bees
lilt of dulcimer
roll of thunder
and the cleansing
plash of rain.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZWZ7KpB5Zg
I'll fly away, Oh glory! Some bright morning I'll fly away.  Will you join me?  Will the circle be unbroken?



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