Through the prisms of love and loss, memory, individual narratives, and
the natural world, this collection of poems celebrates the bounty of
life-ordinary human experience as an act of discovery. Our daily
encounters with the world, universal and particular, are what breathe
life into us-what we take with us and ultimately leave behind. The poems
examine the common landmarks of our lives, "the careful threads that
hold us together," joy and suffering, passions and disappointments, the
search for identity, complexities of nature, growth and decline, the
paradoxes of reality. Meaningful gifts abound in the small and often
astonishing details which serve to define the human condition.