Migrations : A Map Of The Human Spirit

This book is a map of the journeys we take each time we face a crossroads in life. Our choices become our adventures: to leap forward, look backward, root down, take flight, enter into relationship or go it alone. In these brief, profound writings, award-winning poet and memoirist Kara B. Imle tracks a path through the depths and heights of human love, madness, longing, laughter and spiritual awakening. These pieces show a deep kinship with the natural world and a wanderer's spirit that is always, within each journey, seeking home. We don't migrate like our ancestors did, many centuries ago. But in so many ways, travel still beats in our hearts, in the way our blood migrates through our veins, in the shapes we shift into that enable us to both inhabit and transcend our humanity. We live on the paths of wild geese, monarch butterflies, king salmon, humpback whales. Something tickles us, itches us, irritates and yearns us. That far-off call. That longing to pull up stakes and move on.Each time the reader returns for a dip into this book, he or she enters a world of spirit and nature. The poetry is a profound meditation on life, love, loss, and redemption. Short prose digs deeper into the mystery: the theory of relativity as discovered in the Hawaiian islands, the wonder of a universe contained in a drop of water, and the gorgeous tyranny of an endless summer day in the wilds of Alaska. Imle's writing gently but fiercely addresses the human situation: despite our many religions and political views, our hearts are the same. No one is entirely alone, yet no one ever feels entirely understood. From falling in love to grieving a loss, we are all on the same journey. More than anything, this is meant as a gift from a human heart, to the heart of humanity. Whether you give it to your loved ones or to yourself, there is something in here for everyone.

Author: K. B. Imle

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Oct 30, 2018

Number of Pages: 118 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1724002597

ISBN-13: 9781724002594