Sifting Your Life

Joy Angell Stalvey Barefoot

Description

It’s a journey of vignettes from growing up in the 1930’s, through 60 years of family, relationships, love, and loss … raw, honest, tender, and evocative.
Sifting Your Life, and Gathering Pearls is the manifestation of more than six decades of poetry and prose, and the love of written and spoken word.
Readers are witness to an elegantly crafted, and at times stark, slideshow of the American south, from The Great Depression, through World War II and Vietnam, while still settling into quip and delightful remembrances of what true friendship and compassion look like over decades of caring.
Realist and Renaissance Woman merged, she has a gift for capturing the spectrum of blessings, joy, and grief, as well as highlighting the segregated south and cultural hypocrisy we continue to encounter today.
Bringing forth from her ancestors, the strength, compassion, and resolve to bring balance to social inequality, Joy’s writings about her own friends and family bring full-circle the impressions of seeing the raw realness of human beings … family and stranger alike. This collection of poetry nudges readers to a higher awareness in their interactions with one another and with the world.

Sujets

• Vie de famille
• Relations familiales
• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: Archway Publishing
• Date de parution: 03 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781665730921
• Langue: English

Extrait

Endorsements
Joy’s poems are so emotive, and they take me to that exact place and time. Memories invade me as I read each one, and I realize how we all, as human beings, can relate, and how it can be beneficial for everyone to be reminded of the people and places that have touched our lives.
I feel like Joy is holding my hand, taking me on a journey and I gaze upon each destination. I can see the people and hear the sounds of voices, laughter, and crying, and I smell the aromas floating through the air as her descriptive words direct me.
Joy’s transparency is refreshing. Her memories, even the mundane, but collected as a whole, reflect a life of beauty, integrity, grace, and enrichment.
What a gift this book is and what a legacy she leaves behind!
- Karen St.Clair Carter Owner/Publisher of Stroll South Roanoke Magazine
Joy Barefoot’s collection is an intimate view of one’s life and experiences. You walk through each line, verse, and page tenderly as you would a garden; and you are enriched just the same by the sounds, fragrance, and lushness you discover. Sifting Your Life is an example of how poetry heals not only the writer but also the reader.
- Jacinta V. White Founder of The Word Project which publishes Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing
Sifting Your Life, and Gathering Pearls , Joy Barefoot’s wonderful collection of poetry, is a lifetime of memories shared in verse. Each poem paints a picture depicting the essence of life; relatable in some way to each of us. This is a book to be savored, one poem at a time.
- Shannon Fitzgerald Author, Artist, SoulCollage® Facilitator
Joy Angell Stalvey Barefoot’s soulful poetry collection, Sifting Your Life , is remnant of Emily Dickinson’s spirit reflections, but widening her verses to include life, war, neighbors, ice cream, flowers, aging, humor, Taos, and mortality. It is a volume of depthful prosodic perspective; many of the poems are striking and slyly brisk. Just the right amount of restraint, tinged with a beautiful longing that is immersively readable.
- Mark Damon Puckett Author of The Reclusives , markdamonpuckett.com
Joy Barefoot’s poetry is deeply evocative, painting through words a vivid picture of past experiences. Drawing on themes of family, friendship, faith, nature, and the passage of time, she leads the reader into a world of memories recounted with love, care, sorrow, nostalgia, and hope.
- Marica Tacconi Distinguished Professor of Musicology and Art His tory, Pennsylvania State University
SIFTING YOUR Life
 
and Gathering Pearls
 
 
 
JOY ANGELL STALVEY BAREFOOT
 
 
 
 

 
Copyright © 2022 Joy Angell Stalvey Barefoot.
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
 
 
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Author Photo by Little Otter Flowers.
 
ISBN: 978-1-6657-3091-4 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-3090-7 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6657-3092-1 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022917761
 
Archway Publishing rev. date: 09/30/2022
Contents
Endorsements
Dedication
Both Ends of the Path
A Satchel of Dreams
Loins of Adam
Superstition
Hull Street House
Flower Born to Re-Seed
It Would be a Long Time
Red Boots
Five-Cent Ice Cream Cone
Schoolyard Memories
Park Bench Lunch
Aunt Corina
Double Sacrifice
Depression Dolls
I Remember Mama
The Small Blue Envelope
White Blankets
Weeping for What Might Have Been
Sweet Violet
The Old Road Home
Clickety, Clacking Along the Tracks
Troublesome Creek
Wiregrass Boy
One Last Game with Daddy
Master Gardener
Vespers at Camp New Hope
Sara Mcneill
First Generation Grief
My Name is Flora Macdonald
My One Love
House at the End of the Road
Summer Love on White Lake Sands
The Love of My Life
Tranquil Love
Starch for My Soul
A Long Way from Home
Little Ostrich Skin Shoes
Clothespin Philosophy
Fiftieth Anniversary, June 21, 2009
Miracle of Life
The Wrench
Kindred Spirits
The Button Box
Unfinished Patchwork Quilt
A Life Path
Spanning Rough Places
Corner Post of Life
Papa’s Dilemma
Papa Angell’s Shadow
Reluctant Berry Picker
White Aprons
The Lesson
Road to a Friend’s House
Mortar and Pestle
Used Shoes
Dollar Store Empathy
Spoken Prayer
No End of Fools
Keep it Clean
The Leaf on the Edge
Golden Years
Pathways and Errands
Fly into the Wind
Naomi Makemie Presbyterian Church
The Sermon
In God’s Eyes
God’s Fistful of Pennies
Ear of the Beholder
Rethink Church
Just a Spoon of Rice
Turned Down Pages
The Eagle’s Way
Turning Sideways
Walking on Broken Glass
In Search of Soul
Dialogue with White Paper
Biloxi’s Phoenix Promise
Hacking a Trail
High Mountain Aspens
Mississippi Dirt Devils
Taos, NM -2007
Taos, NM -2007
Taos NM, 2007
Taos Shoe Psychiatrist
Taos Sunrise, 2007
Pemaquid Lake
St Iona’s Legends
Dark Edge of Death
Pilot Mountain
Carolina
Dog Days of Summer
Two Trees Dialogue
Euthanasia of the Oak
The Mother Tree
Like a Dream
Spring’s Encouraging Miracles
Blood on White Linen
After the Storm
Ode to Columbine’s Beauty
To Everything
Nor’easter
Bones of the Sea
Morning Watch
Evening Fare
Hidden Spot
First Tomato
Hot Georgia Day on Chulio Road
Beware the Lair
Paper Porch Witch
Autumn Festival
Thanksgiving Peace
First Winter Wind
Untamed Wind
Pleasures of the Sun’s Lamp
Quiet Peace of Snow
Ice Storm
Morning Snow in the 1970’s
Resolution
A New Year Comes
Weaver’s Lair
Touching the Soul
Cups that Cheer, High Tea at Hotel Roanoke
Seekers
Seamstress
Lena
Laughing
The Waitress
Silver and Gold
Two Different Worlds
She
White Coats
Counting Chickens
The Way the Shadows Fall
Too Soon
Endurance
Sacred Journey to Peace
The Garment’s Hem
The Journey
When You Lose Someone You Love
Sweet, Sweet Spirit
Labyrinth Walk
The Nurturer
In My Reverie
Brief Moments in Time
To be a Special Lady
House of Friendship
Matilda Jenkins
The Flutophone and the Copperhead
Generation of Gypsies
Surviving
Whistler in the Night
Two of a Kind
Reclamation of Lost Memories
Mulberry Morning
The Tapestry
Tribute
Master Weaver
What Once Was
Olive Party
What are You Today?
Coffee Queen’s 9 0th
Shared Secrets
Mother’s Day
And There You Were
A Familiar Friend
Cocktail Games
Weathervane People
Birthday Observation
Birthday Wisdom
Changes
Once Upon a Time
Inaugural Parade
Chauncey Spencer
Watercolor Warrior
Before You Go
Seize the Moment
Day’s End at Appomattox
Indifference of War
Fort Donelson Now
The Price of Compassion
Drums of War
Syria’s Boy, Everyman’s Child
Chernobyl, Ten Years Later
Connected by the Moon
A Day of Remembering June 6, 1944
Japanese Tsunami Hope
Prayer for Enlightenment
Promise Fulfillment
Magic Things and Renaissance Women
It Isn’t Me
Raindance on the Beach
There Goes the Onions
Timing is Everything
Fear
Mr. Miles
Cork Boots
Mr. Zim’s Cochlea
Tiger Woods’ First Masters
Secrets on the Sand
The Mixed-Up-Muse and Me
The Birthday
Pain, and the Racing Clock of Time
The Night Meeting
Giggle Girl
The Life of a Well-Tended Rose
Tilling the Heart
After Lear
Dear Thanatos
Dancing with the Devil
Diana’s Dance
Sweet Berries
Nursing Home Visit
Beyond the Blue
Loss
Home
Sensitive Hands
Genealogy Madness
Touching the Past
Free for the Giving
Always Room for One More
No Chicken Wing for Jesus
Peace
Lesser of Evils
Born Anew
Honest Prayer and Praise
Whistleblowers in the Church
Knowledge
Life’s Landscape
A String of a Dream
Nostalgia, Rain and Train Whistles
Into My Being
Listen to the Morning
Threads of Summer Life
A Dream
Beneath the Deep
Long Shadows
Haunt of the Hounds
Game of Pretend
Chosen and Gifted
Two Ways to Crack a Seed
Souls Never Die
Sifting Your Life
Finishing the Book
Four Seasons
Dedication
Many have taught me life’s lessons, supported my efforts throughout my growing years of writing. Many have questioned when I will publish this book. Many of those delightful people are now floating in some part of the universe, while others remain across the country, and some beyond.
Without their encouraging, persuasive words, I would not be doing this at my age. It