Saint Paul Almanac Volume 13: A Path to Each Other - Paperback

by Wendy Brown-Baez (Editor)

A Path to Each Other is a marvelous kaleidoscope of colorful stories, insightful poems, and essays, affirming the joy of people coming together in loved places in St. Paul, working to create meaningful lives, celebrating a variety of cultures, and offering insights into healing spiritual and emotional pain. Here are vibrant depictions of people weighing their individual lives and their relationships. They pose moving questions about the world's inequalities, hoping for better futures, for trust regained and understanding renewed. Here are playfulness and fun. Here are many paths to each other. This almanac will be cherished not only for its insights but for displaying the courage it takes to create change and trust. In the words of Filsan Ibrahim, one of the winners of the Sidewalk Poetry Contests, If people come together/they can even mend /a crack in the sky.

-Emilie Buchwald, Minnesota poet and publisher

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St Paul Almanac: A Path to Each Other

This collection of voices weaves humor, love, the gut-punch of loss, the ordinary and extraordinary with mamas and daddies, buses and ESL classes, scooters and rescue dogs, and the vagaries of Minnesota weather. It is provocative and compassionate in its portrayals of inter-generational experiences of adversity and success, written, as David Mura suggests in his quote that appears in the book, "from strength not weakness." In these uncertain and stressful times, these writers lead us across the diverse landscapes and cultures of St. Paul with their lyrical words and stunning imagery to help us find what we need most--a path to each other made by walking together with empathy and understanding.

-Gwen Westerman, Minnesota poet laureate