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The Desk on the Sea (Paperback)
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The Desk on the Sea (Paperback)
Series: Made in Michigan Writers Series
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The Desk on the Sea begins four years after American poet Jonathan
Johnson spread his mother's ashes in her beloved Lake Superior and
moved with his wife and young daughter into a seventeenth-century
cottage on Scotland's North Sea. On an idyllic, desolate coast and
in the wild Highlands, Johnson began his search for a way to live
through ongoing grief and to take in the wonder of each new day.
Through years of extraordinary suffering by way of multiple
ailments, Johnson's mother, Sheila, endured an astounding number of
amputations-a toe, the end of a finger, a foot, whole fingers, the
other foot. What she lost in her physical being, she gained in her
kindness and generosity. By the time she was told that the only way
she could survive a little longer was the amputation of both hands,
she was capable of giving those who loved her and herself a
beautiful death instead. Inspired by her example of grace and
awareness, Johnson and his family gave themselves one year on the
coast of Scotland to live by Shelia's great, guiding principle: We
don't get the days back. They wandered trails along windswept
shores and past the stone ruins left by people who'd come and gone
before. They played as characters from Harry Potter on deserted
beaches. From their cottage, they watched an island lighthouse,
counting the seconds between flashes to know exactly when to say
""goodnight"" so the lighthouse would answer with a wink. The Desk
on the Sea is a chronicle of progress toward one man's new life
goal-to be a father, husband, and poet worthy of his mother's
legacy. Sustained by an unwavering belief that words can help us
fully occupy our lives, and that imagination and empathy can
transform suffering into what John Keats called ""soul-making,""
Johnson offers readers a raw look at love and loss.
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