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This is a collection of song lyrics by Jonathan Johnson who has been composing songs for over twenty years since the age of sixteen. This is a raw look into the mind of a songwriter. Some of these songs can be heard in their recorded state if searched out on the web.

Longing for a home in big, wild country that would keep them passionate and young, Jonathan Johnson and his wife, Amy, set out to build a log cabin on his family's land in a remote and beautiful corner of Idaho. But what began as a doable dream for the two of them suddenly looks quite different when, on their first morning in the cabin—without electricity, a telephone, running water, or real windows—the couple learn that Amy is pregnant. In this lyrical and intimate chronicle of making a home the hard way, Johnson describes the competing joys and anxieties of preparing for fatherhood in a setting as challenging as it is promising: a paradise of mythic snowfalls and warming wood stoves and elk tracks at the front door, but also a place where vision, and even struggle and compromise, are not always enough. Hannah and the Mountain tells a rare and delicate story of two people exploring the unmapped territories of loss and grief and finding solace and grace in the mountains. It offers the reader an unforgettable portrait of a couple growing up, learning nature's hard and beautiful lessons, and discovering a love of place and each other strong and wild enough to renew them and be carried into the future

The Desk on the Sea begins four years after American poet Jonathan Johnson spread his mother's ashes in her beloved Lake Superior and moved with his wife and young daughter into a seventeenth-century cottage on Scotland's North Sea. On an idyllic, desolate coast and in the wild Highlands, Johnson began his search for a way to live through ongoing grief and to take in the wonder of each new day.Through years of extraordinary suffering by way of multiple ailments, Johnson's mother, Sheila, endured an astounding number of amputations-a toe, the end of a finger, a foot, whole fingers, the other foot. What she lost in her physical being, she gained in her kindness and generosity. By the time she was told that the only way she could survive a little longer was the amputation of both hands, she was capable of giving those who loved her and herself a beautiful death instead. Inspired by her example of grace and awareness, Johnson and his family gave themselves one year on the coast of Scotland to live by Shelia's great, guiding principle: We don't get the days back. They wandered trails along windswept shores and past the stone ruins left by people who'd come and gone before. They played as characters from Harry Potter on deserted beaches. From their cottage, they watched an island lighthouse, counting the seconds between flashes to know exactly when to say ""goodnight"" so the lighthouse would answer with a wink.The Desk on the Sea is a chronicle of progress toward one man's new life goal-to be a father, husband, and poet worthy of his mother's legacy. Sustained by an unwavering belief that words can help us fully occupy our lives, and that imagination and empathy can transform suffering into what John Keats called ""soul-making,"" Johnson offers readers a raw look at love and loss.

Jonathan Johnson is a poet unafraid to seek wisdom, even as the bewilderment of longing floods like shadows--or perhaps light--into every day. We are alive now, these poems remind us. In response to that beautiful and difficult truth, Johnson offers the sincerity of his fullest attentions and speaks in a voice as fluent in the intricacies of consciousness as it is in the tender directness of elegy. In this new collection, imagination is a migratory instinct that leads across a vast home range of shorelines, northern forests and companionable sidewalks. Traveling these rich physical territories and correspondent territories of the human heart with Johnson, the reader finds ample reason for gratitude and the grace to inhabit the moment as it passes away.

If the dead are a sea and the living an island, these poems speak from the shore. Their steady company consoles and reminds us that the wages of mortal awareness and sorrow endured can be attention and generosity. From mournful solitude and wanderings as far as Paris, Greece and Spain, Johnson returns again and again to his familiar Scottish coasts, Highlands, and relations; to fatherhood and romantic love; to sensory wonder and the reverence of moments; and now and then to outright grace.

Poems that travel through time and terrain, seeking solace in the raw physicality of the world. To grieve is to search. In Pine, Jonathan Johnson's poems travel across continents: through Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the Scottish Highlands, the Greek islands, and the mountain wildernesses of the American Northwest, seeking meaning in the spaces left behind. These poems embrace the raw physicality of place, uncovering the deep textures of the natural world as both a witness and companion to loss. Amid the perpetual elegy of everything, Pine offers moments of improbable wonder. Johnson's voice is steady and rich with narrative, guiding us through landscapes of memory and wilderness alike. In this intimate collection, grief and grace are intertwined, and the world--against all odds--goes on.

Stories of resilience, belonging, and the quiet beauty of life on the edge of the wild. In The Little Lights of Town, acclaimed poet and memoirist Jonathan Johnson turns to fiction, bringing to life the rugged landscapes and tightly knit communities of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Against the backdrop of Lake Superior's cold, untamed shores, his characters navigate love, loss, and the relentless pull of home. From those who choose to stay despite the ever-present shadow of isolation to those searching for connection in a land where nature looms larger than life, these stories illuminate the quiet urgencies of human existence. With prose as lyrical as it is unflinching, Johnson visualizes a place where the past lingers in the streets, and where even in the darkest winters, little lights continue to shine.

Contemplate the concept of the wind and the wave as elements of our circumstance over which we have little or no control; yet these circumstances are subject to a plan that encompasses a picture greater than our own perspective. We make these circumstances what can be called "Icons of Prominence," unholy icons that preoccupy our worship. Using clay I attempt to look past circumstance and create "Sketches of Preeminence." I hope that my own story is an expression of faith as I step out of my comfort zone and awaken to live walking by the Lord's bidding.

Logan James is a great detective. One of the best. But even he's in over his head in his new job with N.E.S.T., a government agency so secretive that only the highest of high level officials even know of its existence. Tasked with hunting down the world's most hidden and deadly terrorists, Agent James is about to find out the most dangerous threat to the world is already inside N.E.S.T.Struggling to keep up in the world of high stakes espionage and terrorism, Logan James's life is turned upside down by a chance encounter with a fellow agent that may just lead to his death. With the fate of the free world in his hands, Logan James is tasked with bringing rogue agent Hannah Lynch to justice. Only in N.E.S.T., nothing is what it seems and every revelation drags Agent James down deeper into a rabbit hole of espionage, secrecy, and romance.Can even one of the world's greatest detectives survive the high stakes world of N.E.S.T.?

As young Sampson prepares for bed, he asks his parents for a bedtime story. After searching for a book to read, Sampson's father realizes that he and Sampson's mother have read all the books in Sampson's room. In fear that he might not get the bedtime story that he desires, Sampson becomes sad. Only to have his parents save the night by telling him the story of how Sampson became their forever son through adoption.

In a world where there is so much calamity, Quarantine Chronicles explores the feelings of young children as they experience life in such chaotic times. This book will open your eyes and remind you of the importance of conversation and time spent with your children.You will feel the hearts of the children on a variety of subject matters, but each voice needs to be heard and respected. Welcome to the Quarantine Chronicles