Will you help me?
It's not every day that a new book releases ... from me! This book has been in process, in one form or another, for more than 20 years, and I'm so excited that it's finally (almost) available for everyone!
Will you join my Launch Team? If you love Christmas, The Joy of Advent is perfect for you. Why not share the love and get freebies, swag, and gifts?
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I’m not sure mothers get “summer vacation” quite the way our children do. And soon even my kids will be back to their various schools: homeschool, special edu program, college, internships… We’ll be spread at four institutions from Michigan to Texas, and perhaps farther when my recent graduate settles into his next phase of adulthood.
I could share much about the scarcity of time, how the twenty years mentioned above when I was creating The Joy of Advent, one memory at a time, is now just a blink. Shorter, the fluttering of eyelashes on a sleeping infant’s cheek. But I won’t.
Instead, I’ll share my favorite August poem that says everything I feel about these final days of summer.
August
August rushes by like desert rainfall,
A flood of frenzied upheaval,
Expected,
But still catching me unprepared.
Like a matchflame
Bursting on the scene,
Heat and haze of crimson sunsets.
Like a dream
Of moon and dark barely recalled,
A moment,
Shadows caught in a blink.
Like a quick kiss;
One wishes for more
But it suddenly turns to leave,
Dragging summer away.”
― Elizabeth Maua Taylor
I hope you will dive into the resources below and consider joining my Launch Team. And grab one final quick kiss from summer before it’s on to apple pies and sharpened pencils!
Rebecca
