"The book is the place to turn for initial information and perspective on Alzheimer's disease, and to return for practical advice as problems arise. Most importantly, however, it dispels the sense of hopelessness families may feel by providing steps to maximize the enjoyment of life for the person with Alzheimer's disease." --- Robert C. Griggs, MD, FAAN; 2009 - 2011 President, American Academy of Neurology

Using recovery and Christian faith-based themes, neurologist and author Daniel C. Potts writes poetry about gratitude and spiritual transformation.

Shadows lengthen. Time is still. Limbs write a message on the parchment of the day. We long to read it, to know it. We are tired. We seek the peace... A voice is heard. It is familiar, calm, and true; small as a falling leaf, yet thunderous, like a gale. It makes us remember we belong, and are loved and forgiven; that, no matter what happens, we are persons created to know love. The voice we hear is God's, speaking peace and healing through the trees... at end of day. This book contains poems and photographs that can calm our spirits so that we may hear God's voice.

Soul fire, life's inextinguishable flame of the true self, burns throughout eternity with God-imparted energy. It warms the world with beauty and love; it sings and paints and dances and prays. Seeking energy in others and burning more brightly in relationship, it imparts but never gives out. It is fire of the divine spirit infused through flesh, and no frailty or affliction can douse it. Pure love is its infinite source. It blazes with the colors of God. These same colors are seen in the wonders of our world: sunsets' glow, tender green of spring, ashen gray of clouds, vibrant hues of gardens, dark patterns in the grain of woods. The Unseen Hand paints from the reservoir of Heaven. We must learn to feel this fire, to see these shades in others; to know them as eternal souls with cores of unfathomable elemental riches. Seeing their true selves, we must celebrate life in them, with them. And if flesh or mind should fail, we must affirm the light within, seeking to spread its warmth and glow through deepened relationship. We must lift the torch of personhood for all. This book is produced in celebration of the fire which burns in and through us and those we love; even in the grandeur of creation. It gives gratitude to God for personhood and kinship, and for the immeasurable gift of this world, through which we may behold, even today, the creative mastermind at work.