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Tossed and Shaped by the Distant Sea: To Live and To Love
Tossed and Shaped by the Distant Sea To Live and To Love Author:Grace Hall McEntee Tossed and Shaped by the Distant Sea: To Live and To Love is a collection of fifty linked stories and poems about life, love, loss and challenge. Set on Harmony Island, most stories emerge from the island itself. You will read a personal narrative about the challenge of crossing from mainland to island in a small boat on a stormy winter ni... more »ght. Two stories explore the event of an elderly neighbor?s wandering away into the woods and the community?s response. ?Without Him? captures in poetry the rhythms of a CPR rescue. ?She Talks to Flowers? is a whimsical poem about a life-altering relationship with plants. Once, the author and her husband missed the signals that a storm threatened: ?Hurricane Jeanne? tells of their struggle in wild seas to save their boat. A few writings are set elsewhere: Paris, a classroom, a child?s room. A friend wrote: ?What stays with me is?that the book is really a love story ?? of you and Matt, the island, what grows on it, the community? and the sea.?« less