Author and poet Kathryn Carole Ellison's will add to her collection of
twelve beautiful books of poetry in 2021 with three new titles:
Possibilities, Mindfulness and Reflections. The books are a result of a
lifetime of writing -- first as a journalist. Then, because she had some
life lessons to share with her children, she chose poetry as a means of
communicating. Her books -- Celebrations, Heartstrings, Inspirations,
Sanctuary, Awakenings, Sojourns, Gratitude, Tapestry, Milestones,
Beginnings, Horizons and Moments... as well as the 2021 releases
Possibilities, Mindfulness and Reflections -- contain poems from a
collection written over a span of 45 years. The "Poems of Life and Love"
are as fresh and relevant today as they were when she first wrote them.
She has also created a journal titled Gifts of Life and Love. Ellison
began writing poetry for her children in the 1970s when they were
reaching the "age of reason," and she was leaving an abusive marriage,
becoming a single parent, and setting out on her own. She wanted to
share "life's lessons" and her "words of wisdom" with them. Poetry was
her way to communicate with her pre-teenage children to help them make
good decisions in life, without a barrage of words and lectures that
would fall on deaf ears. And so, the Advent Poems began. Ellison gave
her children one new poem a day during Advent -- the 24 days in December
leading up to Christmas. More than 40 years later her grown children
still look forward to each Advent Season, and to receiving her poems. In
total, Ellison has penned more than 1,000 inspirational and
wisdom-filled poems for living a more joy-filled life and overcoming
everyday challenges. "Children of the Light" was among the early poems
she wrote and it is included in each of the twelve books in this
collection. After writing hundreds of poems, it is still one of her
favorites. "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 them. After Ellison's second
husband, Bill Ellison, founder of Value Village/Savers Stores, died of
Alzheimer's Disease in 2008, she decided it was time to share her poetry
with the world. In 2014, at the age of 75, she started a business and
began the journey into the world of publishing, and fulfilling her
life's purpose. Ellison wants to share the message that it is never too
late to pursue one's dreams. She believes the philosophy that "you can
be old at 30, or young at 90" -- that it's all up to us. And she
believes thee's no better time than now to share the poems with the
world at large. The present, broken world needs some good old-fashioned
lessons in civility, kindness, and common sense.
