This is a tale of a middle aged woman who lived in a forest alone. She was a lightworker in the darkness who cast her words of wisdom and healed death’s kiss. Someone who revived the beating of an inanimate heart once again. It is about the spells of a necromancer whose cat came back from the ugly brink of death breathing, to once again walk this earthly place. But something brought back from the dead, doesn’t return the same.
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There is an artful delicacy with which the author, Richard Taylor, brings me as a reader of his book, into his rural world. A place where the priority of caring and the acceptance of an inoculate fate of frailty and mortality are inherent in being alive. I found myself sprawled on my bed, in the mid-afternoon sunlight spilling through the large windows of my pine encased bedroom with my one-eyed cat, reading aloud the typed lines on these aesthetically thought-provoking pages as Debussy played on an LP in another room.
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