Mim’s Missives

Let's Go Walking, authored by Jim Drury and illustrated by myself, is now for sale at Sitka's bookstore, Old Harbor Books, and at Amazon. We are having a book-signing to celebrate the event Sat., August 2nd at Old Harbor Books in Sitka from 11-1. UPDATE: It was lots of fun - thanks to all who stopped by! And don't bother letting me know about the erroneous page numbers in the back next to the list of photos. Oh well...

 
The book is currently available in paperback. Hardcover will be available any day now.

Here's the editorial review of the book:

Poet James Drury has a Masters of Arts from St. Mary’s University and a Masters of Divinity from Lutheran Theological Seminary. Since 1977, he has served congregations in California, Texas, and Alaska. He and his wife Linda currently live in Sitka, Alaska, where Jim spends his free time writing, playing guitar, hosting a public radio show, and doting on his grandchildren. He is also the author of A Sharpness of Grief: Poems and Stories of a Journey to Healing. Sitka Photographer/Artist Mim McConnell is the owner of Shelter Cove Publishing and the local visitor's guide, Sitka Through Four Seasons and designed Let's Go Walking. Her powerful sense of composition and her ability to capture the essence of wilderness places adds an amazing depth and richness to the poet's words.

Our first review:

Let's Go Walking is a celebration of the love of a poet and a photographer for one of the most astonishing and beautiful places on Earth. Here are images -- ravens, storms, returning light -- offered with a gratitude and gladness so deep that they might be prayers. --Kathleen Dean Moore, author of The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World (World As Home, The).

Here's a sample:

Let's Go Walking ...

...into a resilient Tongass
National Forest wearing green
like armor, scarred second
and third growths--
in the long years old but
never again old growth--
protecting salmon stream,
deer habitat, eagles
nesting high in the old crags
above brown bears' feast
or famine;
left alone to become
ancient again the forest
bends with the seasons.