“In poetic images, with humor, and a deep sense of spirituality, Leslie Coff ‘s writing creates a new way of seeing, the precision of her narrative brush strokes sketching out unseen possibilities along life’s path.Her work reminds us that although the journey to the ideal might be a long one, we have the necessary strength inside ourselves to sustain the walk. An enlivening, debut collection on faith and inspiration; the beauty of the prose not to be missed.” — Melissa Falcon Field, author of What Burns Away (Sourcebooks 2015) Thoughtfully worked out and shows a sensitive understanding of life… — Harold Kushner,…
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Being Human - Blessings - Childhood - Darkness - Difficulty - Family - Fear - Hope - Light - Loss - Uncategorized
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Raised in Chicago, Leslie has spent the past million years practicing Traditional Asian Medicine, raising children, writing, teaching and painting in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Atlanta and now Madison, Wisconsin. She believes, as does Hamlet, that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy.
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Once someone came to my dinner table and pronounced “everything is pretty”. I suppose that they might have been referring to candles or food or plates or napkins or setting sun or warmth or, or…. Any one of many things which might seem pretty to one or not-quite-noticed by another. Everything was pretty. Apparently. I cannot for the life of me get those words out of my head. Now a few years later I think ‘everything is pretty, everything is pretty’. It is not pretty in my world because I need to make everything pretty but because it is just…