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    Sifting Your Life: And Gathering Pearls
    Sifting Your Life: And Gathering Pearls
    Sifting Your Life: And Gathering Pearls
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    Sifting Your Life: And Gathering Pearls

    By Joy Angell Stalvey Barefoot

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    Sifting Your Life, and Gathering Pearls is the manifestation of more than six decades of poetry and prose, and the love of written and spoken word.
    Readers are witness to an elegantly crafted, and at times stark, slideshow of the American south, from The Great Depression, through World War II and Vietnam, while still settling into quip and delightful remembrances of what true friendship and compassion look like over decades of caring.
    Realist and Renaissance Woman merged, she has a gift for capturing the spectrum of blessings, joy, and grief, as well as highlighting the segregated south and cultural hypocrisy we continue to encounter today.
    Bringing forth from her ancestors, the strength, compassion, and resolve to bring balance to social inequality, Joy’s writings about her own friends and family bring full-circle the impressions of seeing the raw realness of human beings … family and stranger alike. This collection of poetry nudges readers to a higher awareness in their interactions with one another and with the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchway Publishing
    Release dateOct 3, 2022
    ISBN9781665730921
    Sifting Your Life: And Gathering Pearls
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    Joy Angell Stalvey Barefoot

    Sifting Your life, and Gathering Pearls is described by Joy as “My heart on paper, more or less”. Joy Angell Stalvey Barefoot was born in Georgia, between the depression and World War II. She describes herself as a highly sensitive second child, coming into a world where everything was changing quickly, and she was, intensely, aware of it all, understanding little of it. “I was like a mouse in the room, or a child peeking around the corner”, waiting to hear and see older people, talking of the cost the Great Depression had brought into their lives, as well as the sadness brought to so many who were suffering. Many of her memories and vignettes from that time period, are found in this book. Relatives came and went, especially in search of jobs in the Carolina textile industry, where Joy’s family relocated, and found work in the mills of North Carolina. Growing up in the segregated south, women enjoyed few rights. She explained that she never knew any people of color, not any young Black girls throughout her education, but she knew, and loved, older Black women who cared for her and her siblings, after her mother went to work. As long as she has a pencil and a piece of paper, she is never at a loss for something to capture. Mrs. Barefoot and her beloved husband, Jim, have four children, and have lived most of their life in Virginia. Sifting Your Life and Gathering Pearls, is Joy’s fourth published poetry book, after Hoots, Howls, and Belly Growls … Poetry for Little People, The Night of the Nogwamp, and Poetry From the Back porch of My Soul.

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