Like Syrup Over Pancakes

By Joanne Knox

Our emotions can seem to come out of nowhere and flow over us so quickly that we can be overwhelmed by them. They engulf our entire being, causing us to almost feel like we are swimming in a sticky mess we can't seem to get out of. They are talking to us and asking us to listen. Perhaps one of the women in this book will speak your language and invite you to join her on a journey of self-discovery. Over time, I have discovered how common the human experience of emotional chatter truly is. It is my hope that between the pages of this book, you find some of your own feelings and experiences described and captured in an image. We are more alike than we are different, and in that, I find great comfort. I hope you will too. So Like Syrup Over Pancakes is a word picture of how our emotions flow over us. Since this book is intended to be interactive, inviting you to add to the volume your own art and words, blank pages at the end of the book are provided with that invitation in mind. I hope you will accept.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9781644711149

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Like

SYRUP

over

pancakes…

A journey shared

Joanne Knox

All text and illustrations by the author.

ISBN 978-1-64471-113-2 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64471-114-9 (Digital)

Copyright © 2019 Joanne Knox

All rights reserved

First Edition

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To my beloved husband, Ron, who—more than anyone in my life—always encouraged me to be myself because that’s who he fell in love with.

Preface

This is a love story of sorts, and it’s a story of grief and growth and becoming. It has been a time of deep discovery for me. I found out things about myself as I navigated the grief that took hold of me when my husband, my true love and life partner of twenty-five years, became ill and died three weeks after his cancer diagnosis.

For a long time, nearly a year, I was learning how to live alone again as I grieved his loss and the loneliness that surrounded me. I was redefining my living space, making changes that represented who I was becoming as a single person, living alone in a home that I had shared for over twenty-five years.

I also had so much more time on my hands. I didn’t enjoy cooking anymore. I didn’t have anyone to cook for, anyone to enjoy it with. Although I have always been social and active in my