Evening Light : Mandorla Books : 9781950186426 : 1950186423 : 30 Sep 2022 : FROM THE AUTHOR'S NOTE: Being among [these stories and poems] now gathered, it is as though I am taking a late afternoon walk in the neighborhood after a long day. Each house I see along the way is beginning to be lit from within as those who live there settle in to their evenings. The lives behind each window are as familiar to me as if I too can hear, smell and move within the flow of being gratefully home at last. Darkening blue light suffuses the sky and I share the humanness of being held within these warm rooms. I feel I am one of the family as I pass by even though we are all so very different now - each to each a mystery like the darkness rising from the shadows of the earth. --------------------------------- CRITICAL PRAISE FOR EVENING LIGHT Jemi Reis McDonald's heart-opening book doesn't merely discuss the nature of loss and recovery. With her sensorial writing, she immerses us in the journ