Green Represents Healing

Today I'd like to share an excerpt from a section of Dreaming in Colors, A Spiritual Memoir. This is taken from the introduction to the section "Green - Healing".

The healers or shamans of prehistoric gathering societies wandered the forests, filling their medicine bags with green leaves from a myriad or plants and trees. Narrow and pale, broad and bold, fingered and jagged-edged, each leaf was coveted for its specific healing property. The varied greens of a forest landscape, a meadow or a backyard garden offer us healing when we spend restorative time with them. From renewal and healing come growth and transformation.

The [prose and poems] in...this section tell of healing - not only physical healing, but also the healing and growth of mind and spirit. These components - mind, body and spirit - are completely intertwined, with each having a strong impact on the others.

Dreaming in Colors, A Spiritual Memoir is available online from : http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/dreaming-colors
Copyright 2013, Pamela Wertz Peterson, All rights reserved.

Excerpts from the Introduction of Dreaming in Colors, A Spiritual Memoir:

 

It all began with a dream and a cup of coffee. I must tell you I haven’t always shared my morning coffee with God, at least not consciously. And I haven’t always paid attention to my dreams. During my middle years, I felt that I spent about a decade in a dark tunnel. I was out, functioning in the world, being a wife and mother, establishing a soup kitchen, teaching cooking classes, tutoring students with special needs. But I was experiencing physical pain and injuries that led to major surgeries and I was often short-tempered, lashing out at those dearest to me. I hated looking in the mirror and seeing an anguished face etched with pain, but I didn’t know what to do to change things.

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I also hope that the universal themes in my writing – fear, gratitude, confusion, grace, joy – will speak to your heart and that you will recognize yourself in one or more of the vignettes. Although our experiences are different – not all of us have lost a baby or a parent, for example – we’ve all known the grief of losing someone or something we hold dear. It could be a friend or relative, a job, our youth or our health. In that place of darkness, we all connect, as we do in the welcome sunlight of a spring morning. I pray that you will find within this book the comfort and blessing of shared experience, of love and community.

Dreaming in Colors Is Available Now

I’m pleased to announce the publication of my book, Dreaming in Colors: a Spiritual Memoir.

“Intensely personal and yet universal, this is a journey through life’s joys, doubts, anger and fears to find spiritual meaning. With reverence and gratitude for life, Pamela is poignant, accessible, often questioning, sometimes amusing, always hopeful. Her prose, poetry and photos sparkle as she shares her insightful dreams and stories.”

Available at Bookshop Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)

or online at:

http://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/dreaming-colors

Contact the author

You may also contact the author at petersondreamingincolors@gmail.com

To Be Published in November, 2013

Stay tuned for details.