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Small shelters

for real weather

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"But words too deep for words are attended to. Eternity listens."

​Sound barriers have been broken by the velocity of our pain, by the determined speed of our desperation."

From the chapter—

"Live Within the Ambiguity"

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These verses were written as small shelters for real weather—grief, fear, emptiness, wonder.

Take a transformative journey. Each chapter prompts reflection. 

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What Others Are Saying

"Those who buy it, or receive it as a gift, will not just read it once. They will phrases, dog-ear the pages they want to return to, spill coffee on the ones that made them weep or laugh.

And perhaps provide some of your words for someone exactly in need of what you have written." Early reader

About John Bragstad

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"A former canoe guide in the BWCAW and Canada, John knows the outdoors intimately.

In addition, he spent 25 years as a marriage counselor, and he offers sage, safe, common-sense advice on how to maneuver through troubled waters."

Brian Larsen, Cook County News-Herald

"We do not read poetry

to escape life but to enter

it more fully."

From the North Shore of Lake Superior—Nature's Gentle Wisdom

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