This collection of poems and digital art is the first collaboration between poet, Marilyn Raymond, and artist, Cathryn Wellner. Together they have created a unique way of presenting poetry and images. The book extends an intimate invitation to communicate through poems that are open and accessible and images that offer a rare glimpse into story.

Marilyn’s poems, though on a wide range of topics, always have natural images, often both light and dark together - hope and loss, beauty and death, love and loneliness - and are meant to inspire connection: connection to insight; connection to trees, rivers and the animals that love them; connection to our human loves; connection to our deeper selves. 

Cathryn is the creator of the series of whimsical, poignant, sometimes heart wrenching picture/micro story combinations known as Small Scale Stories: Only Slightly Off Kilter. The photographs and micro stories encourage readers to keep reaching for connection: lighthearted, passionate, heartwarming, sad, lonely, and beautiful ways to Love this Earth.

Together, Cathryn and Marilyn, have created a unique way of presenting poetry and images. This book extends an intimate invitation to communicate through poems that are intentionally written to be open and accessible and images that offer a rare glimpse into story through the eyes of another.