The Little Book of LIVING IN THE ONGOING, by Joni Grâce with Terah Cox

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5x7, 220 pages, full color illustrations.


An ode to the natural world and the seasons of our lives...

Writer Joni Grâce has come together with author-poet Terah Cox, and illustrators Mal Petty and Hannah Zeno, to create a poetic narrative and visual soul-balm for those who love nature and her mysteries. Seeking and finding wisdom in the abundance of life around us and within us, Living in the Ongoing is an invitation to not only trust in the ongoingness of life, but also to step away occasionally from our daily doings into being with the quiet presence that comes when we allow time to dissolve into moments of timelessness.


A gift book and companion for the seasonal rhythms of change and renewal, this inspiring work suggests that the natural world is one of our greatest resources for understanding our own human nature and how to tap the gifts of our deep-seeded resiliency. A gentle gift for self-care, life changes, loss and healing. See below for an excerpt from the Introduction.


Available here or Words Matter Gift Shop in Staunton, VA, as well as: Amazon.ca  |  Amazon.com  | Amazon.co.uk  (search Amazon product code B0FC33XHCY)

 Living in the Ongoing is presented in four seasonal sections,
featuring pointillism drawings by Mal Petty and watercolors by Hannah Zeno.
Excerpt from Introduction
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     The Little Book of Living in the Ongoing is the offspring of an original book of poems entitled The Ongoing, written by Joni Grâce with author-poet Terah Cox. While The Ongoing explores personal existential terrains of thought and feeling amidst the landscapes of the natural world, the poetic narrative of Living in the Ongoing expands the “I” who is the beholder into an invitational “we.” Here, a fullness of presence moves fluidly through our seasons from the personal into the universal and back again. Here, the vulnerability of our human nature is cradled—and also strengthened—in the generative resiliency of the natural world. And here, a wisdom for living is sought in the wisdom of the Earth for the sake of us all.

     The lush illustrations and economy of words in this little book invite us into any present moment in order to feel the liminal presence that permeates all of life as a kind of fertile shimmering, and let it feel and witness us. In that sweet spot of timelessness between one moment and the next, we can feel Spring’s "new greening of both soil and soul,” and become as “the blue flax dancing” in the Summer warmth. As young shoots break the surface in their “tenacious craving for light” and the lone loon “survives her solitary night,” so do we. In the “suspended breath between the lush height of Summer and the first fiery descent of Fall,”  we breathe in the poignant aromas of the waning harvest. And then finally, we give ourselves over to the inner/outer “charged stillness of Winter” that ultimately leads us “out of the fallow into the fertile...out of dormancy into new life.” ...