TREMBLING HEART: Color edition

By Katharine Stone Ayers and Cherri LaMarr

 

TREMBLING HEART is a gorgeous collection of poems laced with artwork exploring the many manifestations of love: love of pets, friends, lovers, nature, ourselves.

 

It celebrates our journey and encourages us to let our trembling hearts fly as we take move towards the realization that our deepest longing is not

• Language: English
• Publisher: Katharine Stone Ayers
• Release date: Nov 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9780996596879

Katharine Stone Ayers

Katharine Stone Ayers is an artist, teacher, healer and poet. She has practiced and explored many avenues of healing over the past fifty years. I've always loved to write," says Katharine, "and am delighted to be publishing three poetry books that encompass my life journey: Old Remnants-New Buds, Trembling Heart and Opening. With exquisite mentoring from my teacher, Lorraine Mejia, great input from book designer, Cherri LaMarr, and friends who cheered me on, I'm delighted to bring these works of love to completion." Katharine wants her readers to know that she hopes that reading her poems will be as transformative for them as it was for her writing them. Katharine lives in Maui, where she feels blessed to be living in a stunningly beautiful environment where she is enriched by a diverse artistic, healing and spiritual community

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KATHARINE STONE AYERS

Copyright © 2016 by Katharine Stone Ayers

All rights reserved.

Printed in the United States of America.

No part of this book may be reproduced

without the publisher’s written permission.

First Edition September 2015

Second Edition October 2016

Flowing Rivers Publications

ISBN-13: 978-0-9965968-1-7

ISBN-10: 099659681X

ISBN: 978-0-9965968-7-9 (e-book)

Enjoy Katharine's art at: www.katharinestoneayers.com

Cover and book design by Cherri LaMarr

Other Books by Katharine Stone Ayers

Old Remnants New Buds

Opening

From Frozenness to Freedom

Dedication

to Love

Dear Poetry Lovers and Friends,

As human beings we all know the gifts and challenges of relationships, whether with other human beings, oneself, plants, animals, nature or Essence. Some say that relationships can be our greatest challenge and our greatest gift, including an opportunity for transformation. I’ve certainly experienced both challenges and gifts: from dissention, frustration, and betrayal to satisfaction, bliss and intimate connection.

These poems chronicle my experiences with relationships, from first loves to pets, nature and eventually more conscious and intimate relationships with friends, partners, Presence and myself.

I know what it’s like to be in the throes of historical dramas, traumas, old worn out behaviors, projections and distorted views of reality. I also know that it’s possible to experience a whole new level of intimacy with others and myself. How does this happen? By being able to let veils, illusions, obscurations, old habits and conditioning drop. This takes awareness, being present and accepting moment-to-moment experience as it arises. It also takes openness, vulnerability, curiosity, surrender and true courage – concepts that are not always popular with ego mind.

As I explore, understand and see how I’ve been conditioned by my history, culture, societal values, the media, I can make new choices, open to new behaviors and healthier perspectives. My view of life can change in a way the is fresh and supportive. When I notice the projections and overlays I have on others and reality, the capacity to see and love another becomes