{"id":3488,"date":"2018-09-22T04:21:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T09:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2018-09-22T04:21:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T09:21:52","slug":"saturday-sunshine-celebrating-our-successes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/saturday-sunshine-celebrating-our-successes\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Sunshine: Celebrating Our Successes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I received the Fall Edition of<\/h4>\n

Slate & Style<\/em><\/h1>\n

a literary Magazine,<\/h3>\n

Published quarterly by the NFB Writer’s Division.<\/p>\n

A review of my latest book,<\/p>\n

Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems, <\/em><\/h4>\n

appears in this new publication.<\/p>\n

Special “thanks” to editor, Shelley Alongi, for featuring this book review by Beckie Ann Horter!<\/p>\n

\n

Walking by Inner Vision by Lynda McKinney Lambert: A Book Review<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Beckie Anne Horter<\/p>\n

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[Editor\u2019s Note: <\/em>Posted on 5\/1\/2017 by Beckie Horter. <\/em>Published on The Write Stuff July 24, by Marcia Meara] <\/em><\/p>\n

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Celebrating our successes as visually impaired people is an essential step on the journey to healing. Peer advisor, Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/a><\/u> knows this firsthand.<\/p>\n

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Celebrating in a Memorable Way<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After profound vision loss in 2007 due to Ischemic Optic Neuropathy, Lynda did not use a computer for almost two years. When she finally did relearn her way around the computer with the help of adaptive technology<\/a><\/u>, she decided to celebrate in a memorable way. She started a blog.<\/p>\n

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Lynda\u2019s blog, \u201cWalking by Inner Vision,\u201d grew and grew over a seven-year period. Last year, she decided to collect her stories and poems in a delightful book by the same name.<\/p>\n

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Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems<\/em> is Lynda\u2019s second book. The first, Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage<\/em>, published in 2003 by Kota Press.<\/p>\n

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Into the Mind of the Artist<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

Lynda is an artist and a retired professor of fine arts and humanities from Geneva College<\/a><\/u>. Her artistic background permeates her writing in an unmistakable style, painting word pictures and setting vivid scenes. Her black and white photography accompanies several stories and adds to the visual appeal.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis book takes readers into the mind of an artist, how we work in layers, seeing connections between history, philosophy, psychology, and nature. It\u2019s the artist\u2019s job to tell the things others don\u2019t notice. We see nuances and fragments\u2014these things spark the mind,\u201d Lynda said.<\/p>\n

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Walking by Inner Vision is arranged as a year-long pilgrimage from January through December. Each month begins with a poem and reflects the happenings unique to its time and place. For example, in \u201cMarch Arrived Like a Capricious Cat,\u201d she speaks of the changeable nature of late winter in her native Western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

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Glass wind chimes
\nhang
\nimmovable
\nstiff
\nshrouded in new snow.
\nMarch arrived like a capricious cat
\ncrouched\u2014hunkered down, bent over
\nspring-loaded, squat
\nChangeable!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Viewing a World of Beauty with Vision Loss<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Throughout the 16 poems and 27 essays, Lynda views her world through the lens of beauty even in the midst of vision loss.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI want to give people a strand of hope to hold on to,\u201d Lynda said. Her personal Christian faith provides the anchor for her own hope and optimism.<\/p>\n

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Lynda draws on her wealth of experiences to offer the reader a treasure chest of reading variety. While some stories are light and humorous (\u201cA Wintry Tale\u201d), others are poignant, like the story of her mother\u2019s last family gathering and ensuing struggle with Alzheimer\u2019s (\u201cThe Living Room\u201d).<\/p>\n

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Regardless of the form\u2014free verse or creative non-fiction\u2014one thing remains consistent: lingering images stay with the reader long after the book is finished. They have been taken into the world of Lynda\u2019s inner vision. And all is well. The artist has done her job.<\/p>\n

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BLURB:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book is the dream-come-true of Pennsylvania artist, author and Professor of Fine Arts and Humanities, Lynda McKinney Lambert.<\/p>\n

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Through her poetry and creative non-fiction essays, Lynda invites her readers into her personal world of imagination, faith, beauty, travels, music and more. Since her retirement from her teaching career in 2008, she writes full-time in her century-old rural western Pennsylvania home where she has lived for over \u00bd a century with her husband, Bob.<\/p>\n

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In her books and her art works, she takes strands from ancient mythology, history, and contemporary life and weaves a richly textured new fabric using images that are seen and unseen.<\/p>\n

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Lynda\u2019s first book is Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage.<\/em> This collection of poems, historical notes and reflections was written over several years as she lived and taught courses in Austria every summer. Her students came from all over the country to be in her classes. Her course, \u201cDrawing and Writing in Salzburg,\u201d took students on daily excursions in a variety of places in Austria. Students travelled with Lambert to locations in Austria, Italy, Czech Republic, and Germany during a month-long sojourn. Lynda kept journals each summer and the stories and poems in her book were inspired by her journaling.<\/h4>\n

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In her newest book, Walking by Inner Vision: Stories & Poems she takes us on a year-long journey through the seasons. The book opens in the month of January. She takes readers through each month, with a final destination at the end of December.<\/p>\n

Author Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Lynda is a diverse and creative writer, author and visual artist who has earned degrees in fine arts and literature. She worked at Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA as Professor of Fine Arts & Humanities. She lectured in art history, and a variety of special topics in contemporary literature with an emphasis on modern\/post-modern poetry and writers.<\/p>\n

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In addition, she taught studio arts courses in a variety of genre in art.<\/p>\n

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What is remarkable about her personal and professional history is that she went back to the university to pursue her degrees, at the age of forty-two. She and her husband, Bob, had nearly completed raising their 5 children, and Lynda decided it was time for her to return to her passions in art and literature. Over a period of only 9 years, she earned all 3 of her degrees, at universities in 2 different states. During those 9 years of full-time studies, she also taught courses at a community college and summer art programs for children at a local art museum. During her graduate work at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. Lynda began submitting her poems to publishers and immediately began her career as a published poet in her first year at grad school with that first publication she was hooked on pursuing her career of poetry and publications.<\/p>\n

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In 2017, Lynda had over 140 publications of her essays and poetry published in literary magazines, anthologies, blogs, and print books.<\/p>\n

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Her academic degrees are:
\nBFA in Painting from Slippery Rock University of PA, 1989.
\nMFA in Painting from West Virginia University, 1991.
\nMA in English Literature from Slippery Rock University of PA, 1994.<\/p>\n

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At the time when she was offered a tenure track position at Geneva College, she was serving as executive director of the Hoyt Institute of Fine arts, New Castle, PA from 1993 \u2013 1996.\u00a0Visit the Hoyt<\/a><\/p>\n

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When she accepted a tenure track position at Geneva College, Beaver Falls, PA, she began her teaching career in the fall of 1996. She taught courses in English Literature, Humanities, and Fine Arts during her years at Geneva College. She retired in 2008 from teaching and has been writing and making art full-time since her retirement.<\/p>\n

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Lynda\u2019s career has taken her around the world. She was included in international exhibitions in the U.S., Japan, Austria, New Guinea. She was selected by the U.S. Department of State for the Arts in Embassies program and her wood-cut prints were on display at the U.S. Embassy in Paupau, New Guinea. Another notable recognition in 2017-8 was her nomination for the Skirt Best-of-the-Net Award for an essay, \u201cKnitting a Life Back Together,\u201d nominated by Spirit Fire Review. SFR published non-fiction essay and selected it for this nomination.<\/p>\n

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In 1991, Lynda\u2019s wood-cut prints were chosen as 1 of 8 U. S. printmakers invited to the international exhibition \u2013 The Osaka Triennale (Japan). Her unique prints and paintings were shown all over the U.S. in traveling exhibitions and in invitational shows. She still actively exhibits her art work. She exhibits her art for over 40 years in museums and galleries.<\/p>\n

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Since her sight loss, she began creating mixed-media fiber art in her River Road Studio, which was established in 1976. She has won over 100 awards for her art. Currently, Lynda writes two blogs. She began blogging in December 2009, 2 years after her profound sight loss. Her writing appears on numerous blogs as a guest blogger and as a featured writer. She garners many awards for her writing throughout the year.<\/p>\n

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Lynda\u2019s poem, \u201cRed December,\u201d was a winner in the Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology, Mingled Voices #2, published in Hong Kong. In 2018, Lynda completed two manuscripts that are now ready to be published and she is beginning to let potential publishers know of her desire to have them published. FIRST: Lynda completed her first chapbook, first snow, a collection of \u201clittle poems\u201d with a wintry theme. It is a collection of SIXTEEN poems. SECOND: she completed her next full-length book, Star Signs: New & Selected Poems, which contains 60 original poems.<\/p>\n

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Buy Walking by Inner Vision on Amazon.\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Visit Lynda’s Author Page and read a sample of her book for FREE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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