Nancy Roth's book Grounded in Love: Ecology, Faith, and Action, is the winner of a Silver Medal
from the Nautilus Book Awards. She is now eligible to win the Gold! The awards are for books that make "distinguished literary and heartfelt contributions to spiritual growth, conscious living, high-level wellness, green values, responsible leadership and positive social change." Previous award-winning authors include Deepak Chopra, Matthew Fox, Barbara Kingsolver, Naomi Wolf, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
My book
Grounded in Love: Ecology, Faith, and Action has been available
since May 23! I spent most of Lent putting on the finishing touches, and it is now at the printer. This feels like the most important book I have ever written, and those who were asked to write blurbs seemed to agree that it will be useful at this time, when humanity is confronted with so many environmental challenges. You can find out more by accessing the publisher's website:
www.kenarnoldbooks.com.
This fall, I had intended to prepare my next Church Publishing Book, an Advent book on the "O Antiphons" for publication, but it has been delayed a year. Life intervened -- family events that took priority, preparing a "Forward Movement" pamphlet on Christian Body Prayer, and continuing to spread the word about Grounded in Love: Ecology, Faith, and Action. The latter (ecology, faith, and action) is on my mind, as I begin to "put my garden to bed" for the winter, planting and transplanting and feeling like an artist creating an enormous three-dimensional landscape painting. . My husband and I decided to clear out the non-native buckthorn trees and poison ivy that had invaded the wooded area at the back of our property, as a small "sustainable forestry" initiative.
Our son Christopher has recently been named editor of Communities Magazine , a periodical published by the Fellowship for Intentional Community published quarterly. Our son Michael had a busy summer, first in Saratoga, NY, for the New York City Ballet's summer season, and then at Lincoln Center, where he plays with the Mostly Mozart Orchestra, and NYCB's "Nutcracker" season will be upon him soon. His wife Sarah has played the cello for over five years for the Broadway show "Hairspray," which will end its long run early in 2009. (If you are in New York, try to go if you haven't already: it will provide an upbeat evening in this dreary chaotic time.) Our grandchildren Gabriel and Anna have just begun kindergarten and preschool. In order to prepare for three-year-old Anna's first NYC Ballet "Nutcracker" in December, one of my "gigs" in October that does not appear on the website "schedule" link is improvising the ballet with her class -- definitely a highlight of my autumn!
