About the Book

In this exuberant record of Barbara Mossberg engaging audiences from California to Finland, you will find poems, stories, memoir, humor, elegies, celebrations, travel narratives, rollicking speeches, nature rapture, literary tributes, cooking instructions, and love songs, among other riches. You will encounter mountains and mountain lions, rivers and herons, lost loved ones and found miracles. In her company, you will experience, as she does, moments “when the Universe will reveal itself … as something generous and good, some whiff of passing grace.” The aroma of wonder rises from every page. —Scott R. Sanders, author of The Way of Imagination

About the Author

Professor Barbara Mossberg's global career spans four decades as a prizewinning poet, author, and teacher, and educational ministry to promote the transformational power of poetry in people's lives. President Emerita Goddard College, founding Dean California State University Monterey Bay, Professor of Practice of Clark Honors College, University of Oregon, and American Council on Education Senior Fellow, and other roles, her cultural leadership has been internationally recognized in Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award twice, federal appointment as U.S. Scholar in Residence for USIA, representing American letters worldwide, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Mellon Foundation (Aspen Institute).