The book Swamp Angels: A Family of Limpkins started with the photographs. I live in North Florida on a lake next to a huge woods. The lake is filled with weeds and wildlife: turtles, fish, alligators, frogs, snakes, mud puppies. Some times there are eagles, ospreys, anhingas, beavers, otters, deers, raccoons, turkeys, foxes, armadillos, wild hogs. For about 5 years I took many rolls of film with my first good camera, a Canon A 2e with a Canon telephoto lens. It took gorgeous photos. I am an inexperienced amateur, and often the light was dim, or I wiggled the camera, or the canoe rocked, or the critters came right at me and the telephoto would not focus. I did see wonderful things following wildlife around the lake but many photos were not sharp. Most of the pictures were taken with Fuji 600 film and look great on a well printed page. Very warm colors.
So my dear friend Carolyn Aidman was looking at the photos about the limpkin family, placed in chronological order. She said that it would make a good children's book. I said fine, but only if she would be my partner. Many years pass. Voila. We both have done some writing and editing but this was very hard in every way. We both have always loved nature, and I was a biology major for a while, but neither of us has a deep knowledge of science. We got great help from limpkin expert Dana Bryan PHD, who lives in my town of Tallahassee. He reviewed the manuscript for scientific accuracy and also added more interesting facts about limpkins.
It is a wonderful world.
William Martin
In his latest book, winning Taoist author, William Martin, shares with readers his most recent exploration of the classic, "Tao Te Ching," in a daily personal journal. Each entry combines verses from the Tao with his own poetry and prose in an intimate and practical manner. Martin states, "... The Tao Te Ching stands as perhaps the most revolutionary, transforming, and counter-cultural treatise ever written. If you spend a small portion of each day with it, letting it's message gradually seep through your conditioned defenses, you will find your life profoundly changed and your perception of the present social order turned on its head. This book is a record of my own continuing journey day by day with the Tao Te Ching. Each entry begins with a few lines from the Tao Te Ching in my own translation/interpretation, followed by a short piece of my own poetry and a paragraph of prose reflection. I don't represent these entries as "wisdom," but simply as honest reflections on the paradoxes and conundrums of my life, viewed from a Taoist perspective as they unfold day by day. I speak as one who wonders, wanders, and ponders the Mystery of life, which will always be unspeakable, but always available to the direct experience of anyone who pays attention."
Título : The Time is Tao - Living Day by Day With Delight
EAN : 9781370397167
Editorial : William Martin
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