Kirjahaku

Set in Scotland, this collection of poems is a meditation on the nature of modern life, home, relationship, equity, longing. Through a variety of people, landscapes and experiences these poems explore what it means to be human and what sustains.

In the auction house of frayed space do some of us stay tethered to a coronation of birds? What would it look like to hold your faith, the earth as a bride?These poems are set in Mexico where the dust mingles with peaches and not every dark road blinds.

In the Patron Saint's Daybook who we thought we were and what we become may never handshake. The dark holds s ance and storm, the old person on the bus - longing and a shaved room, the bronzed sky - a trilogy of stars climbing.In the Patron Saint's Daybook the forgotten arrive first, the past holds a keepsake of birds, the forest in your palm sleeps safe, as if it was never stolen.

Want to advance your makeup artistry career?Looking to become a celebrity makeup artist or work behind the scenes at New York Fashion Week?It's time to take your makeup business to the next level and read the top-selling book by Toni Thomas, NYFW makeup artist and published makeup stylist. In her easy-to-read guide, you will learn the trade secrets on the process of building a successful beauty business, and how you too can become a behind the scenes makeup artist for NYFW or see your work in today's top-selling fashion magazines. Becoming a freelance makeup artist takes more than a train case and a set of good brushes. To become a successful freelance makeup artist takes a well thought out plan, career decisions filled with intention, and the drive to take action in your makeup artistry business. This book was written for any beauty professional who is looking to achieve a successful career in the beauty industry and anyone willing to gain the knowledge, utilize the tools, and take advantage of the resources provided to help them reach the top. Buy the Business of Makeup Artistry today and learn how to take your makeup artistry career to the next level, get the dream job you desire, and the financial rewards you deserve.

What is it that threads through our life amongst the trees' nesting, threads through our family, marriage, hopes, pain? What does it take to be here? How can our children teach us about the future, what it means to trust, forgive, continue even amidst the brokenness?How do we learn how to listen to the earth's language of love and not turn away?There are some of the themes that the poems in this collection grapple with.

In these poems, the night can't always be trusted. Things get carried away, a woman's voice, body. But some of us refuse to parenthesis want forever behind a barbed wire fence, decide to mother the day in a spill of orchids, build a fortress in our children's imagination till even walking on a frozen bridge in a flimsy coat with your soul bleeding can feel like a work of art. To be in this company is contemplate the language of birds. To know that even amidst the plagues, there is a wild and holy spirit that seeks to carry us.

Are some lives diminutive, do they come to us as a hidden pearl, unnoticed vestibule. Will the woman heavy with longing find a way to meet banishment with a different gaze? This collection of poems explores lives that sometimes move invisible, vanish, or become keepers of their own flame.

Do some girls find another measure of moonlight, live amid the rain, half-sung roses in the hope someday they can carry them?Why do some of us permanently vanish, others disappear only to come back a rarer kind of filigree?This collection of poetic narratives looks into the lives of many women, what propels them, sustains them, what sometimes goes missing.Perhaps there are trespasses of the heart, precious things we need to learn how to carry.