Carole Ellison began writing poems to her children in the 1970s, when
they were reaching the age of reason and as she found herself in the
position of becoming a single parent. She felt she needed something
special to share with them -- something that would become a tradition,
something they could always count on...
And so her Advent Poems began -- one day, decades ago -- with a poem
each day during the Advent season in December. The poems were
accompanied by a little trinket or sweet for them to enjoy. Forty years
later... her children still look forward to the annual poems that
started a family tradition that new generations have embraced. (Or maybe
it's the trinkets they love?)
Children of the Light was among the first poems she wrote and it is
included in each of the first three books in this collection. After
writing hundreds of poems, it is still her favorite. Light, she
explains, represented all that was good and pure and right with the
world, and she believed then -- as she does today -- that those elements
live in her children ... and perhaps in all of us. We need only to
dare... and to reach for it. Celebrations Heartstrings is the first
of several gift books by Kathyrn Carole Ellison and other titles include
Heartstrings and Inspirations.
