Intimate stories of the personal struggles of a preacher's son coming to terms with major life issues many experience but keep hidden ... in vignettes of free verse. Stories of interwoven lives ... survival of the tragic Siberian Gulag by the Polish parent's of the author's wife, and its continuing affect on all family, including her son and his struggle to avoid deportation for technical but trivialgreen cardoffenses as a troubled juvenile. Intimate stories of the author and his wife's experience of the Findhorn community ... what it meant and continues to mean for their outlook and life after Findhorn. Stories of learning to let go. Stories of Star Island and its influence on the author's life. Stories of our troubled times. Stories of Findhorn, not as an unreachable utopia, but as a demonstration and reminder of the power of combining positive thought with the soul's Love, Light and will-to-good ... in finding ways to live more lightly on the earth as co-creators with nature.