Kindred Spirits: Stories, Passions & Portraits from the Heart of Community (Signed!) [B0994]

2001 signed french-flap PB in gift-worthy condition, 10x10-inches, 144-pages. From the front flap: "What is your reason for being? What brings vitality and importance to your life? When your time on this planet is done, what will you leave behind? These are the questions asked of thirty-two people living in a small island community [on Lopez Island] in the Pacific Northwest. Their answers, bravely spoken, strike a universal chord of contact. Speaking with deep integrity and unusual candor, these people help us connect with meaning in our own lives through the mirror of shared experience." And from the publisher: "Kindred Spirits is a community captured on paper - a community of lively, authentic people speaking freely, photographed beautifully. People of all ages, professions, and political beliefs are presented, all interesting and important members of a small, connected universe. It is is reminder that our life is a journey of the soul with every event an opportunity to choose between love and fear. Kindred Spirits is a guide to love."

From an Amazon review: "Through 2-3 page interviews of Lopez Islanders, the reader's heart is connected to the richness of life. The messages in every "story" are: live each moment to the fullest, connection with nature heals and enriches the soul, and kindness to others changes people and creates community. Lopez Island is known as 'the friendly island.' This reputation has created a self-fulfilling prophecy that comes through clearly in this book; kindness has become a pleasant responsibility."