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Explore the rich vibrancy of summer and reflect on how nature teaches us to value time—in this collection of reflections by our greatest writers.
A season of both growth and of stillness, of hard work in the garden and of relaxing in the cool of the mountains, summer is a celebratory time. Every day matters, says summer. Look around you. Life is starting up again after a long winter and spring, and we find ourselves in a world filled with creatures and plants and shimmers of heat on the subway, with backyard cookouts and ice cream trucks jingling through the neighborhood.
This collection of powerful, stirring pieces from a wealth of sources—ranging from poems composed in eighth-century China to letters from a pioneer woman in the American West, from the Declaration of Independence to Ray Bradbury’s musings on childhood summers—invites us all to fully experience the rich and bountiful spirituality of summer.
Explore the rich vibrancy of summer and reflect on how nature teaches us to value time—in this collection of reflections by our greatest writers.
A season of both growth and of stillness, of hard work in the garden and of relaxing in the cool of the mountains, summer is a celebratory time. Every day matters, says summer. Look around you. Life is starting up again after a long winter and spring, and we find ourselves in a world filled with creatures and plants and shimmers of heat on the subway, with backyard cookouts and ice cream trucks jingling through the neighborhood.
This collection of powerful, stirring pieces from a wealth of sources—ranging from poems composed in eighth-century China to letters from a pioneer woman in the American West, from the Declaration of Independence to Ray Bradbury’s musings on childhood summers—invites us all to fully experience the rich and bountiful spirituality of summer.
Gary Schmidt teaches literature at Calvin College. He is coeditor
of Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season; Autumn: A Spiritual
Biography of the Season and Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the
Season (all SkyLight Paths). He is also author of Lizzie Bright and
the Buckminster Boy, a Newbery Honor book; Mara's Stories: Glimmers
in the Darkness, a Fanfare 2002 Horn Book honor list book; Straw
into Gold; and, with Lawrence Kushner, In God's Hands.
Susan M. Felch teaches literature at Calvin College and is coeditor
of Winter: A Spiritual Biography of the Season; Autumn: A Spiritual
Biography of the Season and Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the
Season. She also edited The Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock
and Bakhtin and Religion.
Barry Mosher, one of the foremost illustrators working today, has
illustrated many books for adults and children, including The
Pennyroyal Caxton edition of the King James Bible and Lewis
Carroll's Alice: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found
There.
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