Part 3 – Book Launch – The Synopsis – Songs for the Pilgrimage
Part 3 – The Synopsis
Coming Soon…Book Launch
Songs for the Pilgrimage
Songs for the Pilgrimage – Meet the Author Book Launch
*** Special Announcement of Behind Our Eyes – A Zoom event!!
Please Join the conversation on THURSDAY – April 13, as I talk about my new book.
Lynda McKinney Lambert. Photo taken at the InSights17 art reception. I am holding “The Dragon’s Healing Breastplate, a talisman. This is the first artwork I completed after losing my sight in October 2007.
When my low vision specialist told me, “You can make art again,” I believed him. With hard work and determination, I regained my creative skills.
Lynda McKinney Lambert is smiling because she is the Behind Our Eyes Spotlighted Poet for the April Book Launch.April 13, at 7 pm. A Zoom Meeting.
*** April 13, 2023, THURSDAY, 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time
Mark your calendar
Poet Lynda McKinney Lambert is the
Spotlighted Author
for the April BOE BOOK LAUNCH
Lynda’s presentation will focus on her latest collection of poetry, stories, meditations, and journal reflections
*** The Synopsis of SONGS FOR THE PILGRIMAGE
SONGS FOR THE PILGRIMAGE is a collection of poems, memoirs, journal reflections, photographs, and meditations inspired by the author’s travels, art, music, prayers, personal conversations, observations, and encounters.
The book is divided into 5 parts.
***Part I: The Unfolding of a Story
Lynda shares insights into the struggles and solitude of the artist’s inner thoughts. She brings us into personal and private spaces, activities and personal encounters. Read her sacred and private prayers. Listen as Lynda describes art and museum displays . Turn the pages and walk into the private places in her home. Her poetic lines hold vibrant moving images In this section. She introduces her desire to live her life as a servant leader.
***Part II: Drawing – Writing – Dreaming
This section takes readers into the mind of a life-long teacher. See the students in the classrooms as she instructs her courses and travels with them to distant places and circumstances. Lynda is a seer and her private dreams. Watch as she introduces personal friends and family members. Feel her inner struggles to find balance between the privacy of the art studio and the public responsibilities of teaching and social activities.
***Part III: Singing – Dancing
This section reveals the love of music that runs like a gently flowing river through the poets personal life. She highlights particular composers, dancers, and places over the decades of her creative life. She writes about dance and music traditions in Japan and Europe.
***Part IV: Landmarks – Landscape
A road trip from Georgia to Morgantown, WV on New Year’s day appears in the section along with writings inspired by her travels in Puerto Rico, a frightening experience on an Alpine mountain top, walking on cobblestone streets, picking up stones along the Autobahn, , early morning activities in Venice, rural countrysides, post cards she wrote to friends, morning walks with her mother, train rides, and hiking in the Alps. She describes beautiful landscapes, mountains, lakes, and intimate jottings and prayers for people, and more..
***Part V: People – Places
In this final section, Lynda sits in a small village graveyard and observes a family coming to see the new grave of their husband and father. She visits death camps and writes about the history of the village of Lidice. We can go on morning walks with Lynda and her mother, and listen to her mother’s voice as she talks about “turning 80” and the beginnings of dementia as her mother opened gifts at the annual Christmas Eve family celebration. Stand with Lynda as she lights a votive candle and speaks intimately to the Virgin Mary about the thoughts in her heart.
Each section features a series of REFORMULATED POEMS. poems based on the Psalms in the Holy Bible. It feels like Lynda is both reading the Psalm, and praying it out loud.
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Photo: Mock Up #1 for my latest book – Songs for the Pilgrimage.
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- Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems
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Star Signs: New and Selected Poems
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Songs for the Pilgrimage: Coming Soon!